Sentence examples for the upper city from inspiring English sources

In addition, most of the city's historic sights are near the edge of the upper city.

He even managed to impose that Manichean vision on the geography of Salvador, scorning Rua Chile, then the main commercial street of the upper city, and its well-to-do clientele in favor of the lower city and the port, where sailors, longshoremen, beggars, prostitutes and grifters saturated him in "the greasy black mystery of the city of Salvador da Bahia".

WHERE TO STAY The Hotel Tropical (Avenida 7 de Setembro 1537; 55-71-2105-2000; www.tropicalocatedcom.br) is coneariently located near both the downtown area in the upper city and the main in-town beaches, and is decorated with murals by Carybé, who illustrated many of Jorge Amado's novels.

The link between the scruffy lower city and the imposing "black mass on the green mountain above the sea," as Amado referred to the upper city in "Pastors of the Night," is the 191-foot Lacerda Elevator, which was itself featured in "Sea of Death," published in 1936.

And the Upper city takes all the water, and drip feeds the Lower City.

Haifa has developed in tiers, from the lower to the upper city on the Carmel.

The old upper city is surrounded by massive, turreted walls that are half Roman and half Moorish.

During the 19th century the city expanded onto nearby lowland and in fact became two cities: the upper, old city and the lower, modern one close to the railway from Madrid.

For most of the last decades of his life, Amado lived at Rua Alagoinhas 33, in the Rio Vermelho neighborhood, far from both the lower and upper city.

On the ancient acropolis (or "upper city") are remains of a Byzantine fortress, and outside the city are several late 13th- and 14th-century churches and three 13th-century monasteries.

The old quarter, or "upper city," isn't much of anything, housing a restored town hall, a few churches, and some overpriced tourist restaurants.