Sentence examples for past splendour from inspiring English sources

From 893 to 972 the town was the Bulgarian empire's second capital and the ruins of the old citadel are testimony to its past splendour.

The mansion of the title, Flem's seat of power, is a decaying edifice of past splendour that serves as a rich symbol of Faulkner's South and of Flem's eventual demise.

Meanwhile, KL retains some of the past splendour of its tropical environment in pocket preserves like the Bukit Gasing Forest Park,  and the little-known Forest Research Institute Malaysia, neighbourhoods like Taman TAR, and monumental landscapes like the Batu Caves.

An avid reader of Classical history and an interpreter of ancient inscriptions, intoxicated by the past splendours of Rome, he preached to his fellow citizens the recovery of its former greatness.

But they had come to see, or were shown, only the rooms and relics of their country's past tsarist splendour, not west European paintings.

But to see a country, and understand its past and present splendours, you have to know its history.

In a city where the echoes of past architectural and cultural splendour are still dominant, the Maxxi has also struggled to establish a voice and presence of its own in Rome.

Guided tours available from £6, cultura.am.gov.br The splendour of Manaus's past was built on the backs of slaves – local Indians who were indentured to work on the rubber estates.

Like other old industrial cities, Hull has a legacy of splendours into which its past magnates poured their surplus capital: a guildhall with corridors of prodigious length and prodigious quantities of hardwood panelling, the Ferens art gallery, with a scattering of impressive old masters (Frans Hals, Canaletto, Lorenzetti) and a strong showing of British art from the 19th century on.

It's had a turbulent past: wrecked at the height of its splendour by fire in 1917, stripped of all surviving architectural features in the 1950s, partially dynamited by the army and ever since eyed up by developers and vandals.

This morning, on a visit to the Old City, I was reminded of the past achievements of Islamic civilisation, and the splendours of its architecture.