The eight-story Police Academy, at No. 235, was built in 1962 of gray-speckled brick and black granite, making it feel a bit like an old high school, with tiled walls and displays of mementos from ethnic clubs and visiting delegations.
Visit the Sherpur district of Kabul, and there, behind a high wall, is the old foreign cemetery.
It's a grove of about 20 old trees -- maples, sycamores and lindens -- enclosed by a high wall.
Despite its modernization and rapid growth, it retains its pre-modern feel with its narrow winding streets, high walls, old town hall and gatehouse, and several inns and houses dated to the 16th century.
But he built it in his old village and hid it behind high walls.
The high walls are dotted with copper pots, old shutters and the like, gathered from estate sales.
The installation of railings has made the high walls of the keep newly accessible — old-fashioned railings, naturally.
The old Nallur Kandaswamy temple functioned as a defensive fort with high walls.
There are high walls, and the famous bank is housed inside an old fortress.
