Medieval City Map — Aerial Cartography
FluxA Flux.1 dev prompt for a medieval city map in bird's-eye cartography — a walled city with four gates, a central cathedral and market square, a river with a stone bridge, a castle on a mound, winding residential streets, and a blank title cartouche in ink and watercolour on aged paper.
Last tested: August 2026 with Flux Flux.1 dev
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Prompt
A medieval city map drawn in a top-down bird's-eye cartography view, a walled city with four main gates at the cardinal directions connected by cobblestone roads, a central market square with small drawn market stalls, a cathedral with a bell tower at the city centre, a river flowing through the eastern quarter with a stone bridge crossing it, narrow winding streets in the residential district drawn as thin grey lines between small pitched-roof buildings, a castle on a raised mound in the north-west corner with a separate inner wall, tiny drawn trees lining the main avenues, a small blank rectangular area at the bottom reserved for a title cartouche, no text, no letters, no street names, hand-drawn medieval cartography style with ink linework and muted watercolour wash in stone-grey, terracotta, and sage on aged paper
Settings
- Model
- Flux Flux.1 dev
- Aspect ratio
- 3:2
How to use this prompt
The four gates at cardinal directions are the structural anchor that keeps Flux from producing an amorphous tangle of streets — they force a coherent road network radiating from the walls to the centre. "Small pitched-roof buildings" shown from above is the view that makes this read as a medieval city rather than a modern one; flat- roofed buildings push it toward contemporary cartography. The blank rectangular cartouche area is the title reservation, and "no text, no street names" prevents Flux from inventing garbled place names that would ruin the map. The castle on a raised mound in a corner is the compositional anchor that gives the map a focal point beyond the cathedral.
Variations to try
- Add a harbour with drawn ships and a lighthouse at the river mouth for a coastal medieval city
- Replace the cathedral with a large mosque with domes and minarets for an Arabian Nights city map
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What to do next
For developers — copy this prompt as JSON
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"prompt": "A medieval city map drawn in a top-down bird's-eye cartography view, a walled city with four main gates at the cardinal directions connected by cobblestone roads, a central market square with small drawn market stalls, a cathedral with a bell tower at the city centre, a river flowing through the eastern quarter with a stone bridge crossing it, narrow winding streets in the residential district drawn as thin grey lines between small pitched-roof buildings, a castle on a raised mound in the north-west corner with a separate inner wall, tiny drawn trees lining the main avenues, a small blank rectangular area at the bottom reserved for a title cartouche, no text, no letters, no street names, hand-drawn medieval cartography style with ink linework and muted watercolour wash in stone-grey, terracotta, and sage on aged paper",
"model": "Flux",
"model_version": "Flux.1 dev",
"settings": {
"aspect_ratio": "3:2"
},
"style_tags": [
"fantasy",
"illustration"
],
"use_case_tags": [
"fantasy-maps",
"wall-art"
],
"source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/flux/medieval-city-map-aerial/"
}The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.
