A Wonderful And Unusual City

In our world a large number of amazing and interesting places where people live. Many people live in amazing cities and towns, whose history began in the Middle Ages or even earlier.

In Yemen is the amazing city of Shiban . This is the first multi-storey city in the world. His houses built of clay bricks reach a height of thirty meters. The houses erected in the sixteenth century, their height, were to protect the local population from the raids of the Bedouins. Buildings and houses in the city are gradually being destroyed, but people still live in it.

The amazing city of Palmanova is in Italy. It is a medieval city - a fortress, also built in the sixteenth century, on the anniversary of the victory over the Turkish army. The unusual city has the shape of a nine-pointed star. The fortress was planned so that it could withstand a long siege. Separately built from each other bastions of the city, they could independently defend themselves. Departing from the fortress walls six streets, look out on the main, hexagonal shape, the area where the main buildings of the city are located. This city - the fortress is one of the best preserved monuments of the Renaissance. The population of the city is currently about five thousand people.

Also in Italy, in the north of the country, is located no less wonderful city - Manarola . He stands on steep cliffs above the sea. Manarola is a city of narrow streets and colorful houses. Together with other neighboring townships of the coast, Manarola is included in the national park of Italy - the Cinque Terre.

In Portugal there is a small unusual city of Montesano . The city is located among rocks and giant boulders. The history of Montesano begins from the second century AD, when a fortress was built here, which has not survived to our time. The town is still inhabited - people live in its houses.

Another unusual and amazing city is in Iran. He is called Kondovan . This place most likely resembles a termite quarry than a city. In the fourteenth century, local residents fleeing from the invaders, arranged for themselves dwellings in a frozen and supple volcanic lava. In it they built houses, various auxiliary rooms, stairs, paved the streets. Thanks to the structure of the solidified lava in the houses, it's warm when the air is cool and cool when the air gets very hot. The population of the town is about a thousand people.