Sentence examples for palace enclosure from inspiring English sources
Because of its immensity, it is useful to become familiar with Topkapi in advance through a good guidebook, and to consider using one of the licensed guides, some of whom are academics, sitting just inside the palace enclosure (not the hustlers outside).
The palace enclosure was also rectangular, with a watch tower on each of the four corners.
The palace consisted of a large rectangular walled enclosure, which contained several ceremonial and administrative buildings including the government ministries.
The fortress-palace of Agra is notable for the massive enclosure wall; its entire length of 1.5 miles (2.5 km) is faced with dressed stone.
Starbucks which memorably caused a stir when it opened up an outlet within the walls of The Forbidden City, a walled enclosure of central Beijing containing the palaces of 24 emperors in the Ming and Qing dynasties has had copyright troubles before in Asia.
That was the year when Fatimid invaders began to build a grand enclosure to house their new mosques and palaces – a private city known to its residents as al-Qahera, and eventually to the world as Cairo.
During the Song dynasty, the city of Bianjing had three enclosures: the outer city wall, the inner city wall, and the palace at the center.
The huge enclosure of the latter included not only the temple but also a royal palace (only traces of which can now be seen).
An architectural study of Prasat Thom showed that it was constructed in two stages [6]: the area surrounded by triple enclosures and the palaces were constructed first (the first stage), followed by the construction of the enlarged areas (the second stage).
