Olympic National Park is a national park in the United States located in Washington on the Olympic Peninsula. The park includes four different areas: the Pacific coastline, alpine regions, the west-side temperate rainforest, and the forests on the drier east side. Inside the park, there are three separate ecosystems: subalpine forest and wildflower meadow, temperate forest, and the rugged Pacific coast.
Hollókő is a village in northern Hungary, in Nógrád County. The village was built in the 13th century and grew more during the 18th and 19th centuries. It is a well-preserved village that shows the culture of the Palóc people, with traditional wooden buildings, homes, farms, and orchards.
The Old Towns of Djenné, also known as مدن جنة القديمة in Arabic and villes anciennes de Djenné in French, are a group of ancient buildings and structures located in the city of Djenné, Mali. This area includes four important archaeological sites: Djenné-Djeno, Hambarkétolo, Kaniana, and Tonomba. In 1988, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) added this site to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Corfu, also known as Kerkyra in Greek, is a city and former independent area on the island of Corfu in the Ionian Islands of Greece. After a government change in 2019, Corfu became part of the larger area called Central Corfu and Diapontian Islands. It is the main city of this area and also serves as the capital of the Corfu region.
Old Rauma, also known as Vanha Rauma in Finnish and Gamla Raumo in Swedish, is the wooden part of the town of Rauma, Finland. It was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1991 because of its special wooden buildings and the way the town was laid out in the Middle Ages. It is one of the few medieval towns in Finland.
Old Havana (Spanish: La Habana Vieja) is the downtown area and one of 15 neighborhoods that make up Havana, Cuba. It has the second-highest number of people living in a small area and includes the heart of the original city of Havana. The locations of the original city walls now form the boundaries of Old Havana.
The osiedle Old City (Polish: Osiedle Stare Miasto) is the oldest historic area in the city of Zamość. It is a World Heritage Site in Poland, added in 1992. UNESCO states that its importance lies in being “an outstanding example of a Renaissance planned town from the late 16th century, which still has its original layout, fortifications, and many buildings of special interest.
The Old City of Jerusalem (Hebrew: הָעִיר הָעַתִּיקָה, written in Latin letters: Ha’ír Ha’atiká; Arabic: المدينة القديمة, written in Latin letters: al-Madīna al-Qadīma) is a walled area covering 0.9 square kilometers (0.35 square miles) in East Jerusalem. A tradition, possibly starting with a British map from the 1840s, divides the Old City into four unequal sections: the Muslim Quarter, the Christian Quarter, the Armenian Quarter, and the Jewish Quarter. A fifth area, the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as Al-Aqsa or Haram al-Sharif, contains the Dome of the Rock, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and was once the location of the Jewish Temple.
The Old City (German: Altstadt) is the medieval city center of Bern, Switzerland. It is located on a narrow hill that is surrounded by the river Aare on three sides. The city’s tight arrangement has stayed mostly the same since it was built between the 12th and 15th centuries.
The New Town is a central part of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It was built in stages from 1767 to about 1850 and still has much of its original neo-classical and Georgian architecture. Its most famous street is Princes Street, which faces Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town across the geological depression of the former Nor Loch.