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Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande
Renamed Cidade Velha in the late 18th century, the town of Ribeira Grande was the first European colonial outpost in the tropics. Located in the south of Santiago Island, the town retains some of its original street layout and impressive ruins, including two churches, a royal fortress and the Pillory Square, with its ornate 16th-century marble columns.
Old Town Lunenburg
Lunenburg is the most complete surviving British colonial plan in North America. Founded in 1753, the city retains its original layout and overall appearance, based on a rectangular grid pattern developed in England. Over the centuries, residents have worked to preserve the city's character, retaining the wooden architecture of the houses, some of which date back to the 18th century.
Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)
The Ligurian coast, between the Cinque Terre and Portovenere, is a cultural landscape of great beauty and cultural value. The layout and arrangement of the towns and the shaping of the surrounding landscape, which overcome the drawbacks of the steep and uneven terrain, condense the continuous history of human settlement in this area over the past thousand years.
Lingshui Juren Village
Lingshui Village is located in Zhaitang Town, Mentougou District, Beijing. It is one of the ancient villages with the most cultural heritage in the ancient villages in western Beijing. It is 78 kilometers away from Beijing and 14 kilometers away from the town government. Lingshui Village is 430 meters above sea level and has a settlement area of 64,000 square meters. It is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, and is slightly rectangular. As early as the Liao Dynasty, the village had a considerable scale. After generations of development, it reached its peak in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. At that time, there were 360 households in the village with a population of more than 2,000. The ancestors of Lingshui chose a place to build the village based on the theory of "feng shui" and decided to build the village in the shape of a turtle. The entire village is surrounded by mountains, enclosed and closed, attached to the yin and embraced the yang, hiding the wind and gathering the qi, advancing from the east and collecting from the west, forming a natural pattern of "harmony between man and nature".