Old Town

Traditional houses with the Roman Catholic church of the Holy Cross in the background, walled city of Nicosia

A typical street in the old town of Limassol

Old Town is the typical designation of a historic or original core of a city or town. Although the city may be larger in its present form, many cities have redesignated this part of the city to commemorate its origins after thorough renovations. There are many places throughout the world named Old Town, including:

Argentina

• San Telmo and La Boca in Buenos Aires

Bangladesh

• Old Town in Dhaka

Bulgaria

• Old Town in Plovdiv
• Old Town in Lovech
• Old Town in Nessebur

Czech Republic

• Staré Město in Prague

Cyprus

• Walled city of Nicosia
• Walled city of Famagusta
• Old town of Limassol

Colombia

• La Candelaria, a historic neighborhood in downtown Bogotá

Denmark

• Den Gamle By in Aarhus

Dominican Republic

• Ciudad Colonial in Santo Domingo, oldest European city in America, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Estonia

• Old Town (Vanalinn) in Tallinn, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Finland

• Vanhakaupunki in Helsinki

Georgia

• Old Town in Tbilisi

Germany

Further information: Altstadt

Greece

• Old Town in Rhodes, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Ireland

• An Seanbhaile in County Roscommon

Israel

• Old city of Jerusalem
• Old Jaffa
• old Town of Acre
• old city of Tiberias

Italy

• Old Town in Bari

Kenya

• Mombasa Old Town

Latvia

• Vecrīga in Riga, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Lithuania

• Senamiestis in Vilnius

Malaysia

• Old Town in Ipoh
• Old Town in Petaling Jaya

Netherlands

• Oude Stad in Nijmegen

Pakistan

• Old Town in Karachi

Poland

• Kraków Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Warsaw Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Old City of Zamość, UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Medieval Town of Toruń, UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Poznań Old Town
• Police Old Town
• Old town of Chełmno
• Old town of Sandomierz
• Old town in Gdańsk
• Old town in Lublin
• Old town in Przemyśl

Serbia

• Tešnjar, Valjevo
• Stara čaršija, Grocka, Belgrade
• Stara čaršija, Novi Pazar
• Stari Grad, a municipality in Belgrade
• Stari Grad, a neighborhood in Novi Sad
• Stari Grad, a municipality in Kragujevac
• Stari Grad, the remains of a fort in Užice

Slovakia

• Staré Mesto in Bratislava

Sweden

• Gamla staden, Malmö
• Gamla stan, Stockholm
• Gamlestaden, Gothenburg
• Gammelstaden, Luleå Municipality

Ukraine

• Stare Misto in Lviv

United Kingdom

England

• Old Town, Croydon
• Old Town, Cumbria
• Old Town, Eastbourne
• Old Town, Hastings
• Old Town, Isles of Scilly
• Old Town, Northumberland
• Stevenage, Hertfordshire
• Old Town, Southampton, a district of the city of Southampton
• Old Town, Swindon
• Old Town, West Yorkshire
• Old Town, Barnsley

Scotland

• Old Town, Edinburgh, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with the New Town, Edinburgh

United States

See also: Old Town Historic District (disambiguation)

California

• Old Town, California (disambiguation)
  • Old Town Eureka, California an original 19th Century Victorian commercial district in Eureka, California
  • Old Town, Kern County, California
  • Old Town, Marin County, California
  • Old Town, Santa Barbara County, California
  • Old Town, Ventura County, California
  • Old Town, California, former name of Pine Town, California, in Lassen County
  • Old Town Pasadena, California
  • Old Sacramento State Historic Park, Sacramento, California
  • Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, San Diego, California
  • Old Town, San Diego, California, a neighborhood of San Diego

Florida

• Old Town, Florida, a town in Dixie County, not to be confused with the one in Orlando
• Old Town Fernandina, Fernandina Beach, Florida; the last town in the Western Hemisphere to be platted according to the Spanish "Law of the Indies" in 1811; named for King Ferdinand VII
• Old Town, Key West, the historic section of the city of Key West, Florida
• Old Town, an amusement park/shopping center in Kissimmee, Florida

North Carolina

• Old Town, Brunswick County, North Carolina
• Old Town, Forsyth County, North Carolina
• Old Town Township, Forsyth County, North Carolina

Tennessee

• Old Town (Franklin, Tennessee) a location along the Natchez Trace named for the Mississippian mound complex there
  • Old Town (Mississippian culture mound complex), Franklin, Tennessee
• Thomas Brown House (Franklin, Tennessee), also known as Old Town, NRHP-listed

Other

• Old Town Scottsdale, Arizona
• Old Town, Augusta, Georgia
• Old Town, Chicago, Illinois
• Old Town, Maine, a city
• Old Town Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Old Town, Staten Island, New York
• Old Town Chinatown, Portland, Oregon
• Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
• Olde Towne Portsmouth, Virginia

Uruguay

• Ciudad Vieja in Montevideo, "Old City" is the name of the oldest part of the city

Other uses

• The Girls of Old Town, a group of prostitutes in the comic series Sin City
• Old Town (song), a song by Phil Lynott, later covered by the Corrs

See also

• Altstadt
• Old City (disambiguation)
• Stare Miasto (disambiguation), "Old Town" in Polish
• Stari Grad (disambiguation), means "Old Town"