Sentence examples for highest towns from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

It's a classic Mexican mountain town of steep cobbled streets and houses in bright blues, pinks and yellows, in what to many would seem an un-Mexican setting; at more than 2,600 metres, Real is one of the highest towns in the country, and the weather can be as brisk, wet and chill as anywhere in Cornwall.

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

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

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.

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.

But it is the natural hot springs on the slopes above town that have brought Papallacta its fame, turning Ecuador's highest town – 3,300m above sea level – into one of the country's most appealing travel destinations.

The highest town in Europe has welcomed the annual smattering of the world's political and business elite to the World Economic Forum's (WEF) yearly conference.

In the first Alpine stage (stage 18 from Juan-les-Pins to Briançon, the highest town in Europe) Simpson finished ninth and moved up to third overall, behind Planckaert and Anquetil.