Antonella Silvio and Carmelo Nazzaro opened Pisillo almost three years ago, as a white-tiled homage to Silvio's home town in Italy, Sant'Agata de' Goti, an arresting stone bastion nestled in the hills above Naples.
Before Republicans boarded their buses to return to Washington, Reince Priebus, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, made an appearance to mingle with the lawmakers who occupy the party's bastion of power on Capitol Hill.
In a country where many schools are segregated by race and class, J.J. Hill is a small bastion of diversity, a Montessori school that draws from surrounding progressive neighborhoods.
(Manhattan also has a Vinegar Hill, near 135th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, another former bastion of Irish newcomers).
He rode shotgun in a gray Honda sedan while his friend Marwan Ismail, a real-estate agent, drove up the hill into Westmount, a former bastion of old Anglo money.
The scene below grippingly highlights the crippling need of his "Tenderloin" district and the desperate condition of many of America's richest cities. Ironically perched right above Glide and the Tenderloin are Nob Hill and Russian Hill, two bastions of Bay Area wealth.
It features chef Trevor Kunk of Blue Hill, one of the early bastions of farm-to-table cooking in New York City.
Housing prices remain cheaper than in neighboring Squirrel Hill, seen as more of a bastion of white-collar workers.
Maria Theresa rebuilt the castle on the hill, completing its transformation from medieval bastion to Gothic fortress to Baroque palace.
The surrounding neighborhoods were self-segregated — a few blocks away was all Italian — but Boerum Hill in the seventies was a bastion of multiculturalism.
