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World famous city walls

SKDS – The Great Wall of China, the wall of the Inca empire, Hadrian’s fortress are walls that go into human history.

Saksaywaman – a wall located on the outskirts of Cusco (Peru), the capital of the Inca Empire dating back to 1100. The dry wall is made of large stones without mortar and is located at an altitude of 3700m.

Hadrian’s Wall is a fortress in the Roman province of Britannia (now Britain), built from 122 AD under the Emperor Hadrian. It stretches from the banks of the River Tyne near the North Sea to Solway 5 in the Irish Sea, and features twin gun turrets, one every five miles.

The Kotel is the ancient limestone wall of Jerusalem, also known as the Western Wall surrounding the Second Jewish Temple, expanded by Herod the Great.



The Walls of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul in Türkiye) surrounded the city on all sides, protecting it from attack both by sea and by land.

The Great Wall of China, built by Qin Shi Huang in the early 7th century BC, is one of the wonders of mankind.

The Aurelian Walls were built from 271 – 275 AD in Rome, Italy, covering all 7 hills of Rome and the Martius campus.