This area is Boa Vista, a little like Havana's Miramar with its glorious villas, both glamorous and decrepit.
The start of the 1980s were a glorious time for Aston Villa.
Radamel Falcao's second goal since arriving from Monaco, on his first league start in more than two months, hauled United level early in the second half after Christian Benteke, with a glorious strike, had put Villa ahead, but the anticipated second-half onslaught never arrived.
I am typing this on a villa balcony, watching a glorious view of the sun setting on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, having been on an overnight sea kayaking adventure.
And Hanoi, which had suffered severe aerial bombardment over the many years of the war, looked to me wondrous in its postwar prosperity, with boulevards and villas, ponds and pagodas — as glorious as it had been when it had been the capital of Indochina.
And the food was delicious, the villa a haven and the weather glorious.
DH This season, Villa were part of one of the most glorious League Cup stories of recent years.
www.turtlecoveinn.com Virgin Gorda Facing glorious views of Sir Francis Drake Channel, Nail Bay Resort, a villa community, has a core of 12 units in two buildings on a hillside, where sitting areas can be found amid old sugar mill ruins.
Out and about Visible from the house, the Grande Cascata (waterfall) is the highlight of the Parco Villa Gregoriana (00 39 0774 332650; visitfai.it/parcovillagregoriana), a glorious natural park set in a giant chasm at the foot of Tivoli's historic centre.
Villa fans expected that goal to be the spur for a glorious career – and it was.
