In its city centre, a number of historic attractions survived WWII and are worth a look: a 14th-century cathedral, a solid old town hall, a good history museum and a surprisingly interesting military museum.
Edinburgh is home to two Unesco World Heritage Sites separated by the steep-sided greenery of the Princes Street Gardens: the Old Town with its imposing Castle Rock and Royal Mile, and the New Town, just a bit younger than Old Town, with a posh Georgian grid laid out in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries.
Like many European capitals, Waterbury is a lovely old town, noted in part for its churches.
I'm from a little old town that don't have 400 people in it, and people want to touch me.
Continuing west for 170km, the highway passes near Thessaloniki - Greece's second city, and a mandatory stop with its plethora of museums, Byzantine churches and a lovely old town.
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Set in a creaking old town house, the 15 rooms possess the original 19th-Century bones to offset their Rose Bowl-sourced and individually furnished interiors, a cosy of velvet settees, fringed lamps and sepia-toned writing paper.
Still there was enough spirit amid the umbrellas, raincoats and bin liners here on Bloomsday - the day in 1904 in which novelist James Joyce set Ulysses - to make this a worthwhile event in a dirty old town.
This port features a pretty, elevated old town where a restored Ottoman structure now houses the swankiest luxury hotel in northern Greece, the Imaret.
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In an article in the Times, the Romanian prime minister strikes a more emollient tone, inviting Britons to come and enjoy a "strong pint" in Bucharest's Old Town or a "quiet holiday" in the sleepy Transylvanian villages beloved by Prince Charles.
The engrossing half concerns the title character (Tamblyn), a sixteen-year-old girl in a Hudson Valley town who gives birth while on a ski trip.
Her path blocked by a construction fence one recent morning, Sarah Berridge, a 51-year-old Briton showing a friend around town, decided to check out other sites.
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Answering questions from his lawyer, Philip Hackett QC, Mr Nadir said he began his business life as a six-year-old selling newspapers in a small town in Cyprus.
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But in a city that moves as fast as this, it is a comfort to know there is a slice of the old town left.
As we ducked out of one of the Art Nouveau apartment block lobbies, hidden behind thoroughly quotidian-looking front doors, I remarked at how wide the road was, an oddity for a town as old as this.
Ram Kripal, a 28-year-old carpenter from Gorakhpur, a small town in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, swears by a white adhesive called Fevicol.
From Frenchglen, keep heading south to the still smaller town of Andrews (pop. 0), where a century-old barn outside of town is missing its roof.
Alexandria has had a wireless network up and running since April that covers an eight-block zone in its Old Town neighborhood, a heavily pedestrian area filled with shops and restaurants.
There is a healthy range of theatrical offerings and for music lovers, the exciting news is the development of Old Town Hall into a dedicated music and cultural venue.
The couple and three children (a newborn, a 3-year-old and a 6-year-old) moved into a three-bedroom home in Hope Town, a village of 400 on Elbow Cay, part of the Bahamian island of Abaco.
"The younger generation is losing respect, " added 48-year-old Pornpun Kaewbundit, as she emerged from a temple in Bangkok's historic old town recently.
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The 33-year-old was presented with a deed of conferment at Bedford's Old Town Hall on Monday.
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It is an old town, a throwback, not given to the transience of urban sprawl.
Greenwich, a town filled with old-money estates, is no stranger to grand listings.
Another favourite is Il Piccolo, a short distance from the Old Town, which is renowned for the quality of its seafood.
Milwaukee is a nice town with an old brewing history, so okay.
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The biggest project, to the tune of around 30 million euros, is the reconstruction of the abandoned 19th-century military base south of the Old Town into a 21st-century cultural platform.
Set on curving stone streets, the old town retains a bohemian air, and the numerous museums and galleries here are bursting with the work of modern masters and artists of old.
Have a "pinch me" moment as you view the Wat Mahathat temple at sunset, and then gingerly cruise the streets of Old Town on a bicycle tour before resting at The Legendha Sukhothai Resort.
Real town meetings--I mean the old-fashioned kind in which a town's voting population meets annually to bicker, gossip, elect councilmen, vote on bond issues--are anachronisms today, surviving only in a few eccentric backwaters of Ye Olde New England.
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