Sentence examples for highest town from inspiring English sources

As the millennium dawned, the children braced themselves against the 3,000m chill of Yemen's highest town.

More than 2,500 business executives and bankers will converge on the highest town in Europe for the annual World Economic Forum.

The sale would still make it the highest town house sale in the anemic first half of 2009, but not out of line with recent sales of much smaller town houses in that neighborhood.

When his education was put on hold, he started running full time, joining a training camp in nearby Nyahururu, which, at nearly eight thousand feet, is the country's highest town, and has served as a base for top athletes ever since Kenya emerged as a distance-running superpower, more than forty years ago.

Later the torch travelled through the highest town in Wales, Brynmawr, and paid a lunchtime visit to Big Pit in Blaenavon.

All roads (and ski runs and bumpy trails) lead to Žabljak, regional capital and at 1,450m above sea level, the highest town in the Balkans.

Tagong, whose altitude of about 12,000 feet makes it one of the highest towns in the world, offers an unfettered window onto the Tibetan people and culture.

Located in the southern French Alps, it is one of Europe's highest towns, and has an excellent skiing pedigree, having opened France's first ski school in 1902.

Start with a walk up into topsy-turvy Dalt Vila (literally "high town") – the Unesco world heritage site is a maze of cobbles and whitewashed walls.

Casting off from the Higher Town quayside in St Martin's in an orange inflatable boat, I didn't know quite what to expect.

The town is divided by the river into Low Town (left bank) and High Town (right bank), the two being joined by flights of steps, including the 200 Stoneway Steps, and by the Castle Hill Railway, the steepest in England.