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I was looking at some paintings from the middle ages and there was some walled cities in these paintings. I guess they were there to fend off raiders. It looks like most of the houses were built within the wall. Are these cities still there? Are the walls still there? Thanks! |
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York still has its wall - it's cool. |
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yes, this is in Chester, Roman legionaries built these walls to defend against the Welsh :) really weird you mention it now, cus im going their on saturday |
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freaking walls and fences everywhere. looks a right mess. |
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I bash my head on the doorways in Chester, short ass people lived in the past. |
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well it could be Chester your talking about, but then there were other places which has the same thing |
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Dorking is a lovely old town - outskirts of London... they got pavements about 5 feet above the road, freaky shit. |
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I thought mel gibson sacked York. :-p..Must be amazing to be around so much history. Thanks. More info appreciated. |
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I thought than in most of the European cities with history longer than 400 years, there are less or more significant leftovers of the city walls or moats (more often). For example, the moat in Wroclaw,where I studied is about a mile long and combined with 100 year old trees it creates some shady and very romantic spots. Recently a friend (and a hopeless love) of mine showed me a 30m long city wall fragment in the city of Gliwice stretching between two buildings. Nobody takes care of it, it's just there. And despite of that it's quite nicely preserved. |
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The only protective walls I see are to stop tramps sleeping in train carriages. York's nice though. |
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God, I forgot how vast streches of medieval fortifications can be found in Cracow and Gdańsk. Come visit, you can stay at obara's place :) |
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The cities must have been an amazing site originally. All contained within the walls. Cobble streets. No modern eye sores. I was reading a book today about the way people dressed in the past and saw some shoes that were from the 1400's ...Those really wide shoes that kind of look like Crocs actually, but leather..Also there was a pic of those shoes with the long pointy front that sometimes curled up. Apparently henry the 8'th made a law that shoes could be no wider than 6 inches. |
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xltronic |
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Exeter has a surrounding roman wall? and so does Gloucester! |
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the shambles in york is pretty weird to walk around. |
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pictures dont do the area justice btw. |
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are you doing a project on english city walls? sorry you cant see any from space we dont have great walls in england! |
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