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Historic towns and old towns on the World Heritage List

106 properties are described in Wikidata as historic towns and old towns (or a close variant): 106 cultural. Most in Spain (7), Italy (7), France (6).

Cultural 106

Site	Country	Year	Type	Criteria
Ancient City of Aleppo in danger	Syria	1986	Cultural	iii iv
Ancient City of Bosra in danger	Syria	1980	Cultural	i iii vi
Ancient City of Damascus in danger	Syria	1979	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Ancient City of Nessebar	Bulgaria	1983	Cultural	iii iv
Archaeological Ensemble of Tárraco	Spain	2000	Cultural	ii iii
Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve	Slovakia	2000	Cultural	iii iv
Casbah of Algiers	Algeria	1992	Cultural	ii v
Centro Histórico de Angra do Heroísmo	Portugal	1983	Cultural	iv vi
Centro Histórico de Évora	Portugal	1986	Cultural	ii iv
Cité de Carcassonne	France	1997	Cultural	ii iv
Colonial City of Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	1990	Cultural	ii iv vi
Episcopal City of Albi	France	2010	Cultural	iv v
Garrison Historic Area	Barbados	2011	Cultural	ii iii iv
Hanseatic City of Lübeck	Germany	1987	Cultural	iv
Hanseatic town of Visby	Sweden	1995	Cultural	iv v
Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town	Ethiopia	2006	Cultural	ii iii iv v
Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao	Curaçao	1997	Cultural	ii iv v
Historic Center of Agadez	Niger	2013	Cultural	ii iii
Historic Center of Quito	Ecuador	1978	Cultural	ii iv
Historic Centre of Arequipa	Peru	2000	Cultural	i iv
Historic Centre of Avignon	France	1995	Cultural	i ii iv
Historic Centre of Brugge	Belgium	2000	Cultural	ii iv vi
Historic Centre of Bukhara in danger	Uzbekistan Soviet Union	1993	Cultural	ii iv vi
Historic Centre of Camagüey	Cuba	2008	Cultural	iv v
Historic Centre of Cienfuegos	Cuba	2005	Cultural	ii iv
Historic Centre of Florence	Italy	1982	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Historic Centre of Guimarães and Couros Zone	Portugal	2001	Cultural	ii iii iv
Historic Centre of Lima	Peru	1988	Cultural	iv
Historic Centre of Morelia in danger	Mexico	1991	Cultural	ii iv vi
Historic Centre of Porto	Portugal	1996	Cultural	iv
Historic Centre of Puebla	Mexico	1987	Cultural	ii iv
Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura	Italy Vatican City	1980	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Historic Centre of Salvador da Bahia	Brazil	1985	Cultural	iv vi
Historic Centre of San Gimignano	Italy	1990	Cultural	i iii iv
Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca	Ecuador	1999	Cultural	ii iv v
Historic Centre of Sheki with the Khan’s Palace	Azerbaijan	2019	Cultural	ii v
Historic Centre of Siena	Italy	1995	Cultural	i ii iv
Historic Centre of Sighișoara	Romania	1999	Cultural	iii v
Historic Centre of São Luís	Brazil	1997	Cultural	iii iv v
Historic Centre of Telč	Czechia	1992	Cultural	i iv
Historic Centre of Urbino	Italy	1998	Cultural	ii iv
Historic Centre of Vienna	Austria	2001	Cultural	ii iv vi
Historic Centre of the City of Pienza	Italy	1996	Cultural	i ii iv
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg	Austria	1996	Cultural	ii iv vi
Historic Centre of the Town of Diamantina	Brazil	1999	Cultural	ii iv
Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás	Brazil	2001	Cultural	ii iv
Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda	Brazil	1982	Cultural	ii iv
Historic Centre of Český Krumlov	Czechia	1992	Cultural	iv
Historic City of Sucre	Bolivia	1991	Cultural	iv
Historic City of Toledo	Spain	1986	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Historic City of Trogir	Croatia	1997	Cultural	ii iv
Historic Fortified Town of Campeche	Mexico	1999	Cultural	ii iv
Historic Inner City of Paramaribo in danger	Suriname	2002	Cultural	ii iv
Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro	Mexico	1996	Cultural	ii iv
Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento	Uruguay	1995	Cultural	v
Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso	Chile	2003	Cultural	iii
Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its Vicinity	Slovakia	1993	Cultural	iv v
Historic Town of Ouro Preto	Brazil	1980	Cultural	i iii
Historic Walled Town of Cuenca	Spain	1996	Cultural	ii
Historic centre of Cusco	Peru	1983	Cultural	iii iv
Historic centre of Zacatecas	Mexico	1993	Cultural	ii iv
Historic town of Grand-Bassam in danger	Côte d'Ivoire	2012	Cultural	iii iv
Kraków Old Town	Poland	1978	Cultural	iv
Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto	Italy	2002	Cultural	i ii iv v
Mazagan	Morocco	2004	Cultural	ii iv
Medieval City of Rhodes	Greece	1988	Cultural	ii iv v
Medieval Town of Toruń	Poland	1997	Cultural	ii iv
Medina of Essaouira	Morocco	2001	Cultural	ii iv
Medina of Fez	Morocco	1981	Cultural	ii v
Medina of Marrakesh	Morocco	1985	Cultural	i ii iv v
Medina of Meknes	Morocco	1996	Cultural	iv
Medina of Sousse	Tunisia	1988	Cultural	iii iv v
Medina of Tunis	Tunisia	1979	Cultural	ii iii v
Medina of Tétouan	Morocco	1997	Cultural	ii iv v
Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca	Malaysia	2008	Cultural	ii iii iv
Mystras	Greece	1989	Cultural	ii iii iv
Old City of Bern	Switzerland	1983	Cultural	iii
Old City of Hebron in danger	Palestine	2017	Cultural	ii iv vi
Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls in danger	Israel	1981	Cultural	ii iii vi
Old City of Salamanca in danger	Spain	1988	Cultural	i ii iv
Old City of Zamość	Poland	1992	Cultural	iv
Old Quebec	Canada	1985	Cultural	iv vi
Old Rauma	Finland	1991	Cultural	iv v
Old Sana'a	Yemen	1986	Cultural	iv v vi
Old Town Lunenburg	Canada	1995	Cultural	iv v
Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications	Sri Lanka	1988	Cultural	iv
Old Town of Lviv in danger	Ukraine	1998	Cultural	ii v
Old city (Dubrovnik)	Croatia	1979	Cultural	i iii iv
Old town of Corfu	Greece	2007	Cultural	iv
Old town of Kuldīga	Latvia	2023	Cultural	v
Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof	Germany	2006	Cultural	ii iii iv
Provins	France	2001	Cultural	ii iv
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus	Germany	2015	Cultural	iv
Tallinn Old Town	Estonia	1997	Cultural	ii iv
Universidade de Coimbra – Alta e Sofia	Portugal	2013	Cultural	ii iv vi
Vecrīga	Latvia	1997	Cultural	i ii
Vieux Lyon	France	1998	Cultural	ii iv
Vilnius Old Town	Lithuania	1994	Cultural	ii iv
Warsaw Old Town	Poland	1980	Cultural	ii vi
historic centre of Córdoba	Spain	1984	Cultural	i ii iii iv
historical centre of Yaroslavl	Russia	2005	Cultural	ii iv
historical city centre of Odesa	Ukraine	2023	Cultural	ii iv
old town of Cáceres	Spain	1986	Cultural	iii iv
old town of Santiago de Compostela	Spain	1985	Cultural	i ii vi
port of the Moon	France	2007	Cultural	ii iv
Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops	Czechia	2023	Cultural	iii iv v

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