Lincoln itself is as English as Cologne and Trier are German.
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But if Roman streets have seldom survived continuously to modern days, if Roman town-planning perished with the western Empire, it has none the less profoundly influenced the towns of mediaeval and modern Europe and America.

Early in the thirteenth century men began to revive, with certain modifications, the rectangular planning which Rome had used.

Perhaps copying Roman originals seen in northern Italy, Frederic Stupor Mundi now built on a chess-board pattern the Terra Nova which he founded in Sicily.

Now, in 1231, Barcelonette was built with twenty square 'insulae' in south-eastern France.