There are a promenade, a landing place for cargo, and a pier.
Everybody needs a promenade sometimes — a place to go when you want to announce to the world (not the little world of friends and family but the big world, the real world) that you have a new suit, or are in love, or suddenly realize that you stand a full inch taller when you don't hunch your shoulders.
Then, I thought about the location where we were standing: Haas Promenade is a place that serves as an invisible line between East and West Jerusalem.
Across Shellbank Basin is Frank M. Charles Memorial Park, a popular place to promenade.
The vintage high street is a place to promenade, shop, watch street artists, eat and drink and just sit and take in the magic of the high street, with the authenticity of a film set, in the middle of a wonderful landscape.
It was a place of promenading, parties and extramarital affairs.
In some places the Promenade is only as wide as the old railbed and is planted with flower beds and shrubs, interspersed with fountains and narrow reflecting pools.
By the early 19th century, with the gradual rise in popularity of the seaside holiday, piers started to be seen as places to promenade and take the air - walking on water, if you like.
Free sunset classical concerts are held several nights a week near the palace, in the very grand Plaza de Oriente at the western edge of the old city, ratcheting up the already festive atmosphere of one of city's liveliest places to promenade.
For decades architects have looked on its great, tempting emptiness and felt an irresistible urge to propose beaches, inhabited bridges, lidos, zones for festivals fluttering with pennants and balloons, places to promenade as if it were the edge of the Mediterranean.
