MailOnline Travel has selected pictures of some of the world's most breathtaking walled cities and towns to inspire you to book your next historic holiday. These spectacular walled communities ...

The town has a pipe band, its own tartan and whisky, a sword-in-a-rock monument to the 1295 Auld Alliance (between Scotland and France, versus the English, obviously) and a Stuart castle. There ...

In France's southwestern Dordogne Valley, Sarlat-la-Canéda is a gorgeously preserved medieval town that traces its history back to the 9th century. In the years following its establishment ...