What are the best preservedmedieval towns and cities in Europe? 欧洲现存最完整的中世纪古城是哪? 1. Toledo, Spain 托莱多,西班牙 It was the capital of Spain in the Middle Ages, a city where three religions lived and left the best of their heritage. 这个城市在中世纪时期是西班牙的首都,有3个宗教曾在这座城市里存在过,而且它们都留下了很棒的遗迹。 2. Aigues-Mortes (France) 埃格莫尔特(法国) Just look at it, please: 光是看一看就懂了: 来自英国人 @Charles Corn 的回答: England has the advantage of not having any major wars on its soil for several hundred years, so many medieval towns and cities that made it through the Wars of the Roses and English Civil War are still largely intact. 英格兰有个优势,那就是它的本土已经几百年没有遭受重大战火了,所以,那些熬过了玫瑰战争和英国内战的中世纪古城基本上都很完整。 This includes the centres of cities like Oxford: 这其中就包括牛津这类城市的市中心: and York: 还有约克: But for the real medieval experience you should look for the towns and villages of the Cotswolds and Suffolk, which became very prosperous in the medieval period from the wool trade. 但如果你想体验真正的中世纪风情,你应该去科兹沃尔德和萨福克这样的城镇或村庄,它们在中世纪由于羊毛贸易而变得非常繁荣。 As a consequence they built beautiful towns and villages, many of which have remained the same size or shrunk as they became less prosperous, meaning that unlike York or Oxford they don’t have any modern sprawl at all. 其结果就是,它们建起了美丽的城镇和村落,而且其中很多都一直保持着当时的大小,或因为不再繁荣而缩小了,这意味着他们不会像约克和牛津一样有那些现代建筑群。 For example: 举几个例子: Lavenham (this was the 14th most populous town in 1523 - bigger than York!) 拉文纳姆(1523年时,这里是英国人口排名第14的城镇,比约克还大!) Lacock 雷考克 Castle Combe 库姆堡
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