Its scenic setting at the centre of the Southern Uplands also provides a basis for tourism.
A meadow known as the "shooting gallery" offered a scenic setting for target practice.
THE Kajaki dam, with its turquoise lake lost in the rocky wilderness of southern Afghanistan, is an unusually scenic setting for battle.
Today Selkirk is a centre for the manufacture of tweeds and woolens and for the accommodation of tourists drawn by its scenic setting.
It gained popularity as a summer resort because of its cool climate and scenic setting, and from 1865 to 1939 it served as India's summer capital.
Nestled deep in what the prolific 19-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche considered to be the most inspiring scenic setting is the Nietzsche-Haus.
Oswestry lies in a scenic setting in the foothills of the Berwyn Mountains between Wat's Dyke (c. 700) and Offa's Dyke (c. 784), defensive earthworks formerly separating England and Wales.
And when love was declared, usually in a song and dance sequence, it was done in a suitably scenic setting - amid the snow-capped Swiss Alps, in the tulip fields of Holland or on the rolling hills of the Lake District.
Railroad crossing gates no bigger than a thumb lower as model passenger and freight trains click by on a scenic set nearly half the size of a football field.
COURMAYEUR, Italy www.courmayeur.net Why go It's the gastronomic capital of the skiing world, with bars and restaurants scattered around the medieval cobbled streets of the old town, all in a scenic setting below Mont Blanc.
The theater company's main stage, a restored Victorian confection known as the Goodspeed Opera House, draws more than 100,000 people a year to this scenic setting on the banks of the Connecticut River.
