Sentence examples for ancient fortification from inspiring English sources

Tower houses, built from mud, look out over secret gardens; elegant minarets stretch up to meet the cornflower blue sky; and, in the distance, the jagged crags of the Central Highlands encircle the city like an ancient fortification.

On one brutally hot day during the trip, we visited Masada, an ancient fortification on the edge of the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea that sits high atop a rocky plateau.

I had gotten a feel for the place by strolling through the labyrinthine pedestrian streets of Stare Mesto, which includes several old city gates and the remnants of the city's ancient fortification walls.

At Bigbury Iron Age Hill Fort, archaeologist Vivienne Coad tells Helen about this original ancient fortification.

Their studio, overflowing with colourful, stylised religious icons of every size, is hidden away next to one of the ancient fortification walls.

Of the ancient fortifications, only Kärnan (the "Keep") has survived.

Be sure also to stroll along Wenzel Walk, which runs along the city's ancient fortifications.

Its Roman ruins include a late 1st-century amphitheatre, an aqueduct, and ancient fortifications.

The return route from Paris took Hogarth through Calais, and while he was waiting for the packet boat he decided to sketch the ancient fortifications of the port.

The ruins of ancient fortifications still survive, but in the 1930s there was no town there, merely the residence of the Tibetan governor and a small temple.

That incident is not prominently mentioned in tours of the city, but it is the one that came back to me as I wandered the ancient fortifications.