Craftworks

 Stunning Walled Towns and Cities

An arresting sight of the famed towers of San Gimignano, Italy

Built to ward off pirates, San Francisco de Campeche, Mexico

The walls and fortresses of Cartagena (1614), Colombia

The sturdy citadel walls of Bonifacio, Corsica, France

The protective 12th-century city walls of Baku, Azerbaijan

The scenic walled city of Siena in southern Tuscany, Italy

The mighty 39 ft high (12m) Ming Dynasty walls of Xi’an, China

Pretty fortifications and fairy-tale towers of Tallinn, Estonia

The 13th-century stone walls of Monteriggioni, Italy

The walled city Mdina hidden behind thick fortifications, Malta

The mighty medieval walls of Ávila, Spain

The sturdy medieval walls of Dubrovnik, Croatia

The old walled town of Ibiza, or Dalt Vila, Spain

Once a pirate hot spot of Saint-Malo corsairs, France

Visby, a former Viking stronghold on the Swedish isle of Gotland

Pretty Piran and its medieval town walls,Adriatic Coast,Slovenia

The solid city walls and impenetrable gates of Toledo, Spain

One of Adriatic’s oldest settlements Kotor (500 BC), Montenegro

Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber, Germany

The walls of ancient city Pingyao, China (827–782 BC)