Sentence examples for gem of a town from inspiring English sources

Goslar is a gem of a town in central Germany, nestled in the slopes of the Harz mountains.

Meanwhile, private financing is responsible for most building restoration, with the goals of attracting tourism and preserving this gem of a town.

Since then I've always stayed in Saintes-Maries (there's lots of reasonably priced accommodation) and it is a gem of a town.

Last month the entire Kelly family -- our dog, Charlie, included -- piled into the minivan so we could drive 12 1/2 hours and spend Christmas in Evanston, Ill., a gem of a town on the banks of one of the finer Great Lakes and home to My Overachieving Sister-in-Law.

The medieval walled town of Carcassonne is a 45-minute drive; you can be nuzzling the edge of the Pyrenees within half an hour; and Mirepoix, just down the road, is a gem of a town, with a 14th-century square of galleried shops and restaurants and cathedral.

It's the type of exchange that reminded me, as much as the industry might evolve, this tucked-away little Swiss gem of a town probably hasn't changed much since Chevrolet was a boy.

A member town of the international cittaslow movement, which was born in Italy in 1999, Halfeti is a little gem of a fishing town on the Firat River in southeastern Turkey.

Follow the road west and you arrive at Agua Amarga, a barefoot sophisticated gem of a seaside town.

From Banda Aceh, take a becak (cycle rickshaw) to the Pulau Weh ferry, then a taxi to Iboih Beach Scubadoo Shane's Ten-Buck Tour, Yamba, New South Wales Shane Henwood and his family run the YHA hostel in Yamba, a little hidden gem of a fishing town.

It's more than a gem of a small town, and more than a buffet of handsomely and brilliantly performed and produced plays.

Witney is a gem of a thriving small town.