Category: Old Towns

Engelberg is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Obwalden and a small mountain tourist town. The municipality also include the communities of Grafenort, Oberberg, and Schwand in addition to Engelberg itself. Engelberg's municipality is an outlier of Obwalden, surrounded by Bern and Nidwalden and Uri cantons. Engelberg, in central…

Zaanse Schans is a neighborhood of Zaandam, which is near Zaandijk, the Netherlands. This small town is most well-known for its historical windmills and houses, which are in excellent condition. In the Zaanstreek district of Amsterdam, old buildings from all over the city were relocated using lowboy trailers starting in…

Stratford-upon-Avon, by English standards, is not an old city. The Romans may have constructed a road through Stratford, but it wasn't until the Middle Ages that the town became inhabited permanently. The earliest settlers in what is now Stratford-upon-Avon were members of the Germanic Hwicce tribe, who arrived in the…

Chinatown San Francisco is one of the few districts that enjoys widespread recognition beyond the city borders. Every day, thousands of tourists go to this area to people-watch, photograph the more or less historically accurate homes, and give in to the temptations of the stores and restaurants that line the…

Berrima is a historic village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. Berrima was founded in the 1830s, during a period in New South Wales when there was a lot of exploration and expansion. While surveying the route for the Great South Road in 1829, Surveyor General Major…

Grindelwald is a village and municipality in the administrative district of Interlaken-Oberhasli, in the canton of Berne in Switzerland. In addition to the village of Grindelwald, the settlements of Alpiglen, Burglauenen, Grund, Itramen, Mühlebach, Schwendi, Tschingelberg and Wargistal also form part of the municipality. Grindelwald village is situated in the Bernese…