Sentence examples for medieval center from inspiring English sources

In the city's medieval center, much of the old marketplace lay in smoking ruins on Monday.

The capital, the old Königsberg that is now Kaliningrad, had its medieval center smashed by British bombs and is largely a mass of ugly Soviet architecture, already decaying.

We ventured off the peninsula into the towns of Guérande, which has a medieval center, and La Baule, about an hour south of Quiberon.

Imam Rauf followed his father as a leading Islamic participant in interfaith dialogue, co-founding the multifaith Cordoba Initiative, named for -- and taking its mission from -- the Iberian city that was a medieval center of Jewish-Christian-Muslim reconciliation.

Beyond the once walled medieval center, I encountered a different legacy, dating from the period when Lviv was Lemberg, one of the largest cities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

After his retirement, Dr. Schreiner raised $2 million and oversaw the restoration of the sole remaining synagogue in Mainz, which had been the medieval center of Jewish study in Germany.

The street at the heart of the medieval city center is full of shops and fast food restaurants — but also cheap hotels owned by slumlords.

Lured by cheap liquor and a hedonistic nightlife, binge-drinking Britons have flooded its medieval cobblestone center, turning this city of 400,000 into a huge stag party.

Already, cheerful volunteers at the lip of the medieval city center are handing out crisp green packets to passers-by, hawking the perks of Strasbourg-by-fast-train.

The Hanse@Medici exhibition, open daily through Sept. 8, illustrates the role of Bruges as the medieval trading center linking the economies of northern and southern Europe.

Mr. Profumo countered his critics by saying the changes approved Thursday would help the bank headquarters to remain in Siena, where it occupies a 15th-century palazzo in the medieval city center.