York Castle Museum

York was first surrounded by city walls in Roman times. To this day, about 3.4 km of intact walls have been preserved, which makes them the longest in all of England. The visit usually takes two hours. There are four main gates next to the walls. They come from the Middle Ages, when they served as watchtowers and toll booths. Beyond them are two smaller gates - one from the fourteenth and the other from the nineteenth century.

The first walls were built around 71, when the Romans built a fort at York. The walls arranged on a rectangular plan were part of its fortifications. Nearly half of the foundations and lines of the then wall have survived to modern times. In the 9th century, the city was occupied by the Danes. The defensive walls were in very poor condition at that time, all the towers were demolished, with the exception of Multangular Tower.

After taking over York, the Danes restored existing walls. They were soon expanded - most of the currently preserved fragments date from the 12th-14th centuries.