Critics say they are denying locals affordable housing and emptying historic city centres of residents ... which are typically attached to walls or locked to railings and window grates outside ...

is often “eclipsed by its more impressive neighbours” but offers an “authentic” experience “medieval city walls, lots of pretty canals, narrow cobbled streets and frescoed churches”.

"Naples was unlike any other Italian city I had visited," Vita recalled." Admittedly, it appeared somewhat dilapidated, with potholed roads and graffiti-laden walls. However, there was already ...

Some 200 buildings—reflecting Byzantine, French Gothic and Italian Renaissance ... Two miles of walls, as well as a moat, protected the city. "There are very few medieval walled cities in ...