Sentence examples for ancient panorama from inspiring English sources

As we crossed the Pont Neuf, built in 1607, you could see the whole city at once: at one end, the Eiffel Tower sparkling from 20,000 computerized strobe lights, at the other, the softer, ancient panorama of Notre-Dame.

Its sandy amphitheater, one of the ancient panorama's most famous sites, has been repurposed as a stage for executions.

STIRLING, Scotland — On a fine day, the granite memorial atop a grassy rise outside this ancient Scottish city offers a grand panorama — west to the craggy fastness of Stirling Castle, north to the hills that stand gateway to the highlands, east toward Scotland's capital, Edinburgh, and south across rolling lowlands that stretch onward to England.

With an endless panorama of mist-capped volcanoes, ancient lava fields and black-sand beaches, the Land of Fire and Ice serves up some spectacular roadside views, and what better road trip destination than a country that only has one road?

The brand is old and burnished, deeply etched into the popular mind in green Celtic fonts, evoking stunning panoramas, incorrigible informality, blazing hospitality; ancient legend, myth, magic, quirkiness, music and dancing that erupts spontaneously and sees the dawn break.

Go down the little street to the right of this, to the flat space at the back from which you get a most romantic panorama over the heart of the ancient city.

This was my reward for the vertiginous climb up 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old stepsg and the well-shaded, ancient Khmer ruins onlyaccess, where a panorama of rice fields and jungle helped toansporthee back in time.

Public squares have been turned into forums from which the militants trumpet their latest diktats, and many of the ancient ruins — once part of the most complete panorama to survive classical antiquity — have been blown to smithereens.

You'll take in panoramas of the valley from the ancient White Fortress before returning to town to the site of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination in 1914, and the cemetery-surrounded Olympic stadium.

From Pájara, I drive through a region of long-dead volcanoes and ancient, weathered lava fields, my windscreen framing a striking panorama of terracotta, russet and beige.

You need at least three days to wander through the dusty, ancient villages scattered across Cappadocia and to survey the fantastic panorama of towering stalagmites that stretches across 50 square miles of sun-baked hills and valleys.