One, in which a castle on a hilltop, half-concealed by vegetation, is enveloped in a late afternoon haze, has a fairy tale atmosphere.
Set up from the street on a hilltop, the roughly half-acre property is being marketed with city-approved plans for a modern-style home with clean lines, clerestories and walls of glass.
Sited on a hilltop of close to half an acre, the three-story residence is distinguished by such details as Corinthian columns, elaborate hand-carved ceilings and a grand entry with a curving staircase.
The hilltop, planted with new, half-dead trees, was cratered with the blasts of artillery rounds and strewn with bits of metal.
Lleida is a case in point: a city whose 13th-century cathedral looms from a fortified hilltop over plains that produce half of Spain's pears and apples, it has drawn a flood of immigrants.
On 1 January, Mantzaris, a mechanical engineer, and John Motsinger, a former environmental writer, began operating Sherman's municipal-owned farm, which sits on a hilltop about an hour and a half from New York City.
The school here stands on a hilltop, surrounded by vineyards and olive groves, half a mile from the site of two shooting attacks on July 26 in which four settlers were killed, including a 9-year-old boy.
Mr. Frazier, 24 years old, an auto mechanic, has been in county jail here since his arrest last Friday at a dilapidated cowshed that was his home half a mile from the hilltop mansion where Dr. Victor Ohta, 45, his wife, Virginia, 43; their two sons, and a secretary were slain Oct. 19.
During rush hour the narrow, corkscrewing roads in this hilltop corner of the western Bronx, a half-square-mile enclave tucked in southern Riverdale, can resemble a race course for some ersatz Grand Prix, with cars locked in a high-speed dodge-and-weave dash to get to the tracks at the bottom.
'It's really difficult and my mortgage is extortionate - the payments have more than doubled,' says Joanne Gower, 43, who moved from Lytham St Annes, in Lancashire, to a hilltop village development near Mojácar two and a half years ago.
