Every year, four million tourists pour into Carcassonne. Another two million squeeze through the gates of Rothenburg. Dubrovnik gets so packed in summer the mayor had to cap the number of people allowed inside the walls. But here is what nobody tells you. These are not the real surviving medieval towns. These are the ones tourism found first. Across Europe, there are walled cities where real families still hang laundry from eight-hundred-year-old towers. Where the baker still opens at five a.m. behind ramparts from 1219. Where the kids still play football in squares that held sieges. You have never heard of most of them. Today we are going to nine forgotten European towns where people still live inside medieval walls. And by the end, you will understand why these town walls survived when thousands of others were torn down.
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