List of walls
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This is a list of famous walls.
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[edit] Ancient and Medieval Walls
- Anastasian Wall in Turkey
- Antonine Wall in Scotland, United Kingdom - part of UNESCO site 430[1]
- Aurelian Walls of Rome
- Ávila Walls, Spain - UNESCO site 348[2]
- Barcelona Walls, Spain
- Basel City Walls in Basel, Switzerland
- Cairo great wall, Egypt
- Cheolli Jangseong, North Korea and China
- Chester city walls in England, United Kingdom
- Conwy town walls in Wales, United Kingdom
- Danevirke, Denmark
- Derry city walls, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- Diyarbakır city walls, Turkey.
- Walls of Dubrovnik in Croatia - part of UNESCO site 95[3]
- The Great Wall of China, China - part of UNESCO site 438,[4] (World's longest wall)
- Walls of Constantinople in Turkey, including the Constantinian and Theodosian Walls
- Erdene Zuu monastery wall in Mongolia - part of UNESCO site 1081[5]
- King's Wall and Flodden Wall, in Edinburgh, Scotland (built c.1425–1560), part of UNESCO site 728 [6]
- Roman limes in Upper Germania, Lower Germania and Rhaetia, Germany - part of UNESCO site 430[7]
- Great Wall of Gorgan in Iran, (World's second longest wall[8])
- Hadrian's Wall on the England-Scotland border - part of UNESCO site 430[9]
- Walls of Jericho
- Jerusalem's Old City walls - part of UNESCO site 148[10]
- Walls of Kumbhalgarh in Rajasthan, India
- Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia
- London Wall in England, United Kingdom
- Roman Walls of Lugo, Spain - part of UNESCO site 987[11]
- Arabic Walls of Niebla, Spain
- Intramuros Walls, Manila, Philippines
- Paczków defensive wall, Poland
- Long Walls linking the port of Piraeus to Athens, Greece
- Serpent's Wall, the ancient walls in Ukraine
- Servian Wall, in Rome
- Silesia Walls, Poland
- Trajan's Wall, in Dobruja, Romania
- Visby Ringwall, Gotland, Sweden - part of UNESCO site 731 [12]
- Western Wall in Jerusalem (also called the Wailing Wall, Kotel HaMa'aravi, and Al-Buraq Wall)
- City Wall of Xi'an in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China
- York city walls in England, United Kingdom
- Walls of Ston in Ston, Croatia
[edit] Ancient earthwork walls
- Kano City Wall, built around Kano, Nigeria
[edit] Modern walls
- Atlantic Wall in France
- Belfast Peace Lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- Berlin Wall in Germany 1961 - 1989 (in concrete: 1975 - 1989)
- Cyprus Wall, island of Cyprus. Dismantled in 2007
- Border Wall (Western Sahara)
- Communards' Wall in the Père Lachaise cemetery, in Paris, France
- Democracy Wall, in Beijing (1978–1979)
- Sections of the Israeli West Bank barrier, West Bank
- Lima City Walls in Lima, Peru
- Korean wall (alleged by DPRK)[citation needed], Korean Demilitarized Zone
- Lennon Wall in Prague
- Melilla border fence in Melilla, Autonomous city of Spain
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often called the Wall
- Via Anelli Wall in Padua, Italy
- US-Mexico Border
- Frontier Closed Area along Hong Kong-China border
- Germany; Buehl Altschweier - Created by Carl Neale - Allegedly can be seen from the Moon
[edit] Walls in contemporary music, art and sports
- Green Monster, Fenway Park, Boston
- Tsoi Wall in Arbat Street, Moscow
- The Wall in SoHo, New York City
- The Wall In Concert (theatrical) - While based on a figment of a main character's imagination, the concerts in the tour for the Pink Floyd album The Wall featured a real wall of giant cardboard bricks between the band and the audience which was constructed, completed, spoliated and finally destroyed during the course of each show.
[edit] See also
- List of cities with defensive walls
- List of town walls in England and Wales
- List of fortifications
- Great Wall (astronomy)
- List of Egypt castles, forts, fortifications and city walls
[edit] References
- ^ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/430
- ^ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/348
- ^ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/95
- ^ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/438
- ^ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1081
- ^ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/728
- ^ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/430
- ^ http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/staff/academic/esauer/pubs/iranian_walls.pdf
- ^ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/430
- ^ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/148
- ^ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/987
- ^ http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/731
