Sentence examples for built on hill from inspiring English sources

This older harbour district is encircled by a modern residential section known as Praia de Fora, built on hill slopes.

Local historians say the city was built on hills, but disagree about how many hills.

The high-rises of Chongqing, in western China, are built on hills; it is a city of steep ups and downs.

Chongqing, a booming city built on hills on either side of the Yangtze, once served as the wartime capital of the Kuomintang government.

THE ROOM Because the bungalows are all built on hills and each overlooks the Pacific, there is not a bad view on the property.

But graveyards shouldn't be built on hills, they learned, after the graveyard started killing people who'd drunk water poisoned by the corpses.

The majority of these residences will be condominiums, both in low-rise buildings at the marina and in larger buildings inland; 31 villas and town houses will be built on hills at the site's highest point.

In 1755 three more drainage mills were built on Hills Drain, while a sluice on the Forty Foot Drain followed in 1758.

Parador Alcázar del Rey Don Pedro, Carmona This spectacular parador is one of several fortresses built on the hill that dominates the pleasant small town of Carmona.

The explanation being that the castle was built on a hill, and that the road went in a flat circle around the bottom of the hill that the castle was built on.

Having received his proof, the bishop ordered that a church be built on Tepeyac Hill in honour of the Virgin.