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Up and down the main street of Lampedusa's town centre, a pleasant promenade dotted with pavement cafes and tourist shops, the stories of those deaths – and people who survived – are everywhere.
This year, the Book festival has hooked up with the theatre company Grid Iron to create Letters Home, a promenade theatre production in and around Charlotte Square Gardens with pieces written by four writers: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kei Miller, Kamila Shamsie and Christos Tsiolkas.
Beyond its walls are the shingle beach, a breezy promenade and Bexhill town, a treasure trove of vintage and antique shops, including the recently opened Eras of Style (erasofstyle.com) on Terminus Road.
Jaffna's fort is still bare, the once-magnificent Dutch church lies in shards at crazy angles, and cows outnumber people on a new promenade around its seaward sides.
The cemetery itself was very much in the garden style, "visited by large numbers of persons, as it is laid out like a splendid park, and its walks afford the advantages of a perfect promenade".
Running along the curving promenade with the shimmering expanse of the Arabian Sea on one side and the red sun rising above the waking city on the other was simply spectacular.
Notfitstate's lovely promenade circus show, Bianco, is back in Cardiff.
What always astounded me was that, every time you went in, it looked like a different room: it could be in the round, it could be promenade.
Since that heady era, the Upstairs has become more international, and more physically exploratory – sometimes both at once, as in Dominic Cooke's promenade production of Vassily Sigarev's Plasticine, where moving scenery let us explore every nook and cranny of an industrial town in the Urals.
Pan Pan's version of Beckett's radio play, All That Fall, is ingenious and well worth seeing as part of the Barbican's international Beckett season which this week also includes outdoor promenade stagings of Rough For Theatre I and Act Without Words.
His firm has borrowed a trick used by fog-basking beetles and in the nostrils of camels for a novel desalination plant.When Grimshaw was given the brief to regenerate the Santa Catalina Isthmus, a narrow stretch of land on the coast of Las Palmas in Grand Canaria, the firm came up with the concept of a 3km (1.9 mile) promenade with a theatre and botanic garden as its focus.
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The primary grammatical function of "promenade" is as a noun , referring to a public walkway designed for leisurely strolling, often located near a waterfront. It can also function as a verb , meaning to take a leisurely walk or stroll. Ludwig provides examples of both usages.
Expression frequency: Very common
