York's city walls have been lit up in blue and orange in tribute to philanthropist Joseph Rowntree on the 100th anniversary of his death. A successful confectionery businessman, Rowntree built the ...

Unique in the UK, Chester is still surrounded by its historic city walls, which date back to the time of the Romans. Ever since a section collapsed five years ago, though, residents and visitors ...

The first thing you'll see as you approach Dubrovnik from the sky or the sea is the city walls. These ancient fortifications were built and rebuilt in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries as the ...

The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the ...

ZHENGZHOU, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Ancient city walls unearthed in central China's Henan Province have been identified as dating back to the early Xia Dynasty (2070-1600 B.C.), offering new evidence ...

The Theodosian Walls protected Constantinople for just over ten centuries until the city fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Yet, the wall survived both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, with sections of ...

York paid tribute to Joseph Rowntree with a light display on the city's historic walls York's city walls have been lit up in blue and orange in tribute to philanthropist Joseph Rowntree on the ...