唐代廣州已形成咗牙城、子城同羅城嘅“三重”格局。南漢陣又將興王府廣州城規劃為宮城、皇城同郭城。宋代係廣州城嘅重要時期，熙寧元年（1068年）喺子城東擴築東城，五年後為保護新興西部商業區同外商聚居地，又擴築咗西城，形成咗三城格局。明代洪武十三年(1380年)永嘉侯朱亮祖修建廣州城，合宋元三城為一城，跟著又進一步擴大市區，對舊城進行改造，向北部、東部擴展，加築外城，令廣州城形成東至今越秀路、北抵越秀山、西至今人民路，南至今一德路、萬福路一線，周長10.5公里。到清代又增修咗東、西兩翼城，向南拓至珠江邊，形成現廣州老城區嘅格局。
In the Tang Dynasty, Guangzhou had formed a "three-fold" pattern of Yacheng, Zicheng and Luocheng. The Southern Han Dynasty also planned the city of Guangzhou as a palace city, an imperial city and a Guo city. The Song Dynasty was an important period for the city of Guangzhou, in the first year of Xining (1068), the east city was expanded in the east of the sub-city, and five years later in order to protect the emerging western business district and foreign settlements, the west city was expanded, forming a three-city pattern. In the thirteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1380), Zhu Liangzu, Marquis of Yongjia, built the city of Guangzhou, combined with the three cities of the Song and Yuan dynasties as a city, followed by the further expansion of the urban area, the transformation of the old city, the expansion to the north and the east, and the addition of the outer city, so that the city of Guangzhou formed the east to the present Yuexiu Road, the north to the Yuexiu Mountain, the west to the present Renmin Road, the south to the present Yide Road, Wanfu Road line, the circumference of 10.5 kilometers. In the Qing Dynasty, the east and west wings of the city were added, and the south was extended to the Pearl River, forming the pattern of the old city of Guangzhou.