List of walls
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This is a list of famous walls.
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[edit] Classical, Biblical, Byzantine Antiquity & feudal era
- Anastasian Wall in Turkey
- Antonine Wall in Scotland, United Kingdom
- Aurelian Walls of Rome
- Ávila Walls, Spain
- Barcelona Walls, Spain
- Cheolli Jangseong, North Korea and China
- Chester city walls in England, United Kingdom
- The Great Wall of China, China; the longest man-made structure
- Walls of Constantinople in Turkey
- Erdene Zuu monastery wall in Mongolia
- Wall of Genghis Khan in Mongolia
- Roman limes in Upper Germania, Lower Germania and Rhaetia, Germany
- Great Wall of Gorgan in Iran
- Hadrian's Wall on the English-Scotland border, United Kingdom
- Jericho walls
- Jerusalem's Old City walls in Jerusalem, Israel
- Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia
- London Wall in England, United Kingdom
- Roman Walls of Lugo, Spain
- Arabic Walls of Niebla, Spain
- Ruined Walles at Mamaev Hill in Volgograd, Russia
- Intramuros Walls, Manila, Philippines
- Offa's Dyke between England and Wales, United Kingdom
- Paczków defensive wall, Poland
- Wall of Phaleron, outside Athens, Greece
- Long Walls linking the port of Piraeus to Athens, Greece
- Serpent's Wall, the ancient walls in Ukraine
- Servian Wall, in Rome
- Silesia Walls, Poland
- Shahabudeen (Shahab) Taj, a famous wall from Afghanistan
- Tallinn City Walls, Tallinn, Estonia
- Themistoclean Walls, outside Athens, Greece
- Trajan's Wall, in Dobruja, Romania
- The Victor Tsoi memmorial wall - A wall dedicated to Victor Tsoi on the famous Arbat street in Moscow where fans yearly gather to remember him.
- Visby Ringwall, Gotland, Sweden
- Wansdyke, in western England, United Kingdom
- Western Wall in Jerusalem (also called the Wailing Wall, Kotel HaMa'aravi, and Al-Buraq Wall)
- York city walls in England, United Kingdom
[edit] Modern walls
- Atlantic Wall in France
- Basel City Walls in Basel, Switzerland
- Belfast Peace Lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- Berlin Wall in Germany
- Border Wall (Western Sahara)
- Byker Wall in England, UK
- Communards' Wall in the Père Lachaise cemetery, in Paris, France
- Danevirke, Denmark
- Democracy Wall, in Beijing (1978-1979)
- Flodden wall, in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Green Monster, Fenway Park, Boston
- Israeli West Bank wall, Palestinian Territories
- Lima City Walls in Lima, Peru
- Korean wall (alleged by DPRK), Korean Demilitarized Zone
- Lennon Wall in Prague
- Tsoi Wall in Arbat Street, Moscow
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often called the Wall
- Via Anelli Wall in Padua, Italy
- The Wall in SoHo, New York City
- The Gum Wall in Seattle
- Tortilla Wall in the USA-Mexico border.
- The Wall In Concert (theatrical) - While based on a figment of a main character's imagination, the concerts in the tour for the Pink Floyd album The Wall featured a real wall of giant cardboard bricks between the band and the audience which was constructed, completed, spoliated and finally destroyed during the course of each show.
