The medieval towers of San Gimignano are an astonishing sight, an invitation to see for yourself this magnificent walled ...

But the walled village seems to be as old as anything in Mesopotamia, and heaped-up debris under it hints that the place was occupied by civilized town-dwellers 500 years before the walls were built.

Kowloon Walled City was a densely populated, ungoverned settlement in Kowloon, an area just north of Hong Kong. What began as a Chinese military fort evolved into a squatters' village comprising a ...

Their rows of houses are ordinary-looking compared to the clusters of large, round, earthen fortresses of Hakka people living in Fujian , or the walled villages in Yuen Long or Sheung Shui.