Unless you have the pleasure of staying in the rooms at the front of the hotel, there are no real superb vistas toward the Eiffel Tower.
VENICE — Days before his country, Sweden, took over the presidency of the European Union, Carl Bildt was sipping a postprandial espresso, enjoying the sun and the waterfront vista stretching toward St. Mark's.
This raised a rare preservationist outcry in a heavily industrialized nation whose coastal vistas tend toward concrete sea walls and oil refineries.
I'm heading north, beyond the Naturalists' Walk, toward Vista Rock, the highest point in the park.
But it's the bracing vista, best experienced toward sunset through the 20-foot-high windows, that may be the most striking effect.
The week's final outing took us up Highway 24 toward Buena Vista and the Cottonwood Hot Springs Inn and Spa.
Looking upward -- toward a vista of sky framed by skyscrapers like a clearing in a forest -- would be part of the memorial experience.
He waved toward the Vista trail, which draws visitors to a bluff overlooking the Eight-Mile River, the jewel of Devil's Hopyard.
In a strikingly white suit, brushes and palette in hand, oblivious to the lengthening ash of the cigarette between his lips, Monet dabs at the canvas, then turns toward the vista of breeze-blown trees.
"There's not going to be another building between us and Midtown, ever," said Daniel Doern, vice president for development of Archstone-Smith, which is developing the project with the Dermot Company, as he stood at a 15th-floor window facing east toward a vista that stretched from the Time Warner Center to the Empire State Building.
