
What do the Mexicans think about our wall? To say that they’re non-plussed is an understatement as Mexico's President has been telling his citizens that the time has come when they will say “you’re not a real Mexican if you haven’t climbed the Great Gringo Wall.”
Pre-Biblical Walls (only one has survived)
* The Great Wall of China, the longest and largest man-made structure
Classical, Biblical, Byzantine and Feudal Era Walls
* Anastasian Wall in Turkey
* Antonine Wall in Scotland
* Aurelian Walls of Rome
* Walls of Constantinople in Turkey
* Roman limes in Upper Germania, Lower Germania and Rhaetia, Germany
* Hadrian's Wall in England
* Jericho walls
* Jerusalem's Old City walls in Jerusalem, Israel
* Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia
* Serpent's Wall, the ancient walls in Ukraine
* Offa's Dyke between England and Wales
* Servian Wall, in Rome
* Wall of Phaleron, outside Athens, Greece
* Long Walls linking the port of Piraeus to Athens, Greece
* Themistoclean Walls, outside Athens, Greece
* Trajan's Wall, in Dobruja, Romania
* Western Wall, aka the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem
* Great Wall of Gorgan in Iran
Modern Walls
* Atlantic Wall in France
* Basel City Walls in Basel, Switzerland
* Belfast Peace Lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland
* Berlin Wall in Germany
* Byker Wall in England
* Communards' Wall in the Père Lachaise cemetery, in Paris, France
* Danevirke, Denmark
* Democracy Wall, in Beijing (1978-1979)
* Flodden wall, in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
* Lima City Walls in Lima, Peru
* Ian Curtis Wall in Wellington, New Zealand
* Korean wall, Korean Demilitarized Zone
* Lennon Wall in Prague
* London Wall in England
* Moroccan Wall in Western Sahara and Morocco
* York city walls in England
Future Walls & Walls in Progress
* The Great Gringo Wall in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California
* The Great Cannuckistan Ice Wall along the "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!" border.
The list of historical walls was taken from Wikipedia.
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