These days I am based in the small medieval town of Sibiu in the heart of Transylvania.
The hotel has a rooftop bar and light-flooded rooms overlooking the sea and the medieval town.
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The Castello, a private residence still occupied by the family, stands at the highest point of this lovely medieval town.
Neighbours in San Gimignano include Mr Blair's predecessor Neil Kinnock who has a holiday home in the medieval town.
San Gimignano is probably the most complete and unchanged medieval town in Italy.
Between the medieval town of Cardigan and the bayside hamlet of Tresaith, via Aberporth, brief pauses in the spring rainstorm allowed for wildlife sightings.
"It's quite a crazy story because in this little town, Herzogenaurach, a cobblestoned medieval town, you have two of the world's biggest sports companies, " says Barbara Smit.
Once known as San Gimignano delle Belle Torri, or San Gimignano of the Beautiful Towers, there were originally 72 towers, 50 to 60 metres tall, crammed within the walls of this small, medieval town that crowns a hill in classic Tuscan fashion.
Like a medieval town's sole inn, a railway line is a perfect example of a natural monopoly: it is tremendously expensive to build and it is difficult to justify more than one set of tracks on any route just to guarantee competition.
Described as a medieval new town founded in 1235, it was also a thriving sea port.
But Grasse, a medieval Provencal town with cobblestone streets, is still considered the perfume capital of the world.
The medieval fortress town of Laval in western France is small and insular, with a population of around 50, 000.
George Clooney plays a professional assassin who lays up in a medieval hill town in the Abruzzo region of Italy.
The Palio at its most basic is a horse race which takes place twice a year in the picturesque medieval hill town of Siena, Italy.
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Two years later Cucinelli sent a plane to pick me up from Milan and make good on a long-standing promise to visit him in Solomeo, the medieval Umbrian hill town he has transformed into a version of Cucinelli-land.
"I used to roller-skate in these cellars, " she told me as we explored the maze of medieval tunnels beneath the town of Beaune in which the company has long stored its wines.
Cross the railway lines and walk off your meal with an amble through Schnelli Park, just a short stroll from the medieval magnificence of the Old Town.
We gaze with astonishment at the vine-clad buildings, the riotous window boxes, the bobbing pastel fishing boats and the vast medieval fortress at the centre of town.
Bones and clothing thought to date back to Medieval times have been found underneath a Reading town centre street during surface repair works.
It was one of the wealthiest abbeys in medieval England and changed the shape of Reading, according to the town's museum.
Highlights include the medieval city of Courmayeur, Italy, and the famous French ski resort town of Chamonix, plus quaint alpine villages in Switzerland.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday pledged to build a new town to house the thousands of people left homeless in the medieval city of L'Aquila, about 120 km (75 miles) northeast of Rome but for many the problems lie in the more immediate future.
Set on the western edge of the lake, the town of Lucerne is as placid as the waters in which its medieval buildings are reflected.
Orchha, a tiny town in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, takes you completely by surprise with its medieval ambience.
Repairs to a Reading town centre road have been further delayed due to sub-zero temperatures and the discovery of Medieval remains.
Under the medieval Leicester law, Blaby farmers and traders are prevented from holding more than a few markets a year in the town.
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The council's archaeologists have worked on excavating the Saxon trading town of Hamwick, located in modern-day St Mary's and maintaining the city's medieval wine cellars.
Walk down the hill from the cathedral, and, embedded between medieval mansions and houses, you will find the Marktplatz, a lively market square in the centre of the Old Town where farmers sell vegetables, fruit, bread and cheese each day.
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