Sentence examples for on its hillside from inspiring English sources

IT sits on its hillside in solitary splendor, not so much the Tuscan town of its architect's imagining as a Shangri-La and Starship Enterprise rolled into one.

Hovering like a U.F.O. on its hillside perch, the Ev is a Turkish take on Kubrick, a sort of "2001: An Accommodations Odyssey".

Yet high on its hillside Afo lives to tell its tale.Climb through the dense, aromatic forests that cover the steep slopes of Ternate's volcano, and you will find this living testament to the ultimate futility of monopoly.

A trip to Little Sparta, on its hillside a few miles from the city, is a chance to pause and reflect; to have your thoughts provoked and your mind refreshed.

Joe and I had stopped off at the tiny chapel, nestling in glorious solitude on its hillside on the Hampshire-Sussex border, while winding our way south along the Shipwrights Way.

Having worked on the National Theatre for Denys Lasdun, Kate Macintosh joined Southwark Council in 1965, where she designed Dawson Heights, a little-known estate in East Dulwich that stands on its hillside site like a spectacular cluster of Tetris blocks.

Oslo seems much greener and warmer than it did on departure, and the trees on its hillsides seem just a little strange.

Amid the rubble of a town that seems almost to have toppled on to its hillside, it is, miraculously, still standing.

One of these is identical to the mountain that can be seen from the cave, with herds of ibex depicted on its hillsides, on both sides of the gorge in front of which the cave of Abauntz is strategically located.

Some of the most striking of the latter can be seen from the miradouros, the terraces maintained by the municipality on seven of its hillsides.

Cragside is a mountain cottage on its own hillside near Caernarfon, sleeps four for £1,100 for seven nights, and is available for weeks starting 23 April, 3 and 14 May.