An independent association named Les Plus Beaux Villages de France, was created in 1982 to promote assets of small and picturesque French villages of quality heritage.

The keep was restructured later on, but the original keep was kept until then for its antiquity and picturesque quality.

Small and picturesque French villages of quality heritage ( such as Collonges-la-Rouge or Locronan ) are promoted through the association Les Plus Beaux Villages de France ( litt.

His voluminous correspondence, mostly in manuscript, is remarkable for its verve and picturesque quality.

He also noted that while classical beauty was associated with the smooth and neat, picturesque beauty had a wilder, untamed quality.

Beuvron-en-Auge was given the label of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France ( The most beautiful villages of France ), decreed by an independent association aiming at promoting to the tourist as sets of small and picturesque French communes of quality heritage.

Despite its picturesque location between the Cordillera de la Costa to the north and the Serrania del Interior to the south, Lake Valencia's poor water quality limits opportunities for tourism and recreational activities.

Today, its picturesque location and generally high quality housing make Limekilns an attractive residential area.

Further university facilities are the general sports ground and gymnasium in the square behind the Arts Building, a high quality tennis center in the park in New Szeged, a picturesque lodge and conference hall ( once a country school now modernized ) in the woods, 30 km from Szeged, and a resort house at Lake Balaton.

Oxford English Dictionary ' picturesque ') before being described by Bagehot in Literary Studies ( 1879 ) as " a quality distinct from that of beauty, or sublimity, or grandeur.

It is still used for its picturesque quality and large gazebo.

Several homes and a community clubhouse designed by celebrated California Arts and Crafts Movement architect Bernard Maybeck add to the picturesque, rustic quality of the neighborhood.

Built circa 1870 two semi-detached cottages at Mentmore masquerade as one Tudor style house. From the 1880s onwards Tudor Revival concentrated more on the simple but quaintly picturesque Elizabethan cottage, rather than the brick and battlemented splendours of Hampton Court or Compton Wynyates.

In addition to several swing sets, sand areas and other various playground equipment for children of all ages, the park also contains lighted tennis courts, two ball fields, a lake with paddle boats, covered and uncovered picnic areas, many picturesque paths and bridges, an adjacent Aquatic Center as well as the adjacent Pullen Arts Center and Theatre In the Park.

In the picturesque name, the ' devil ' refers to the ball and the ' tailors ' are the skittles.

In the picturesque name, the ' devil ' refers to the ball and the ' tailors ' are the skittles.

As R.H. Hodgkin has remarked: `` The critical methods of the nineteenth century shattered most of this picturesque narrative.

A number of noteworthy coastal areas abut the Kattegat, including the Kullaberg Nature Reserve in Scania, Sweden, which contains a number of rare species and a scenic rocky shore, the town of Mölle, which has a picturesque harbour and views into the Kullaberg, and Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark.

The Norwegian government has become concerned in recent years about large numbers of cruise ship passengers suddenly proceeding ashore to small settlements such as Ny-Ålesund which is conveniently close to the barren but nevertheless picturesque Magdalena Fjord.

In the first part, the events which led to the downfall of Granada are related with uncommon brilliancy, and Pérez de Hita's sympathetic transcription of life at the Emir's court has clearly suggested the conventional presentation of the picturesque, chivalrous Moor in the pages of Mlle de Scudéry, Mme de Lafayette, Châteaubriand and Washington Irving.

The second part is concerned with the author's personal experiences and the treatment is effective ; yet, though Calderón's play, Amar después de la muerte, is derived from it, this less picturesque second part has never enjoyed the vogue or influence of the first.

A childhood flight from home to Vienna is included in several contemporary accounts of Gluck's life, including Mannlich's, but recent scholarship has cast doubt on Gluck's picturesque tales of earning food and shelter by his singing as he travelled.

Modern Middelburg has preserved and regained much of its historic and picturesque character.

The city has beautifully maintained its past architecture, making it one of the most picturesque and historically rich cities on the Atlantic coast.

The picturesque old Gay House has the builder's initials " M. G. 1765 " on a stone in the gable.

As a picturesque coastal village, Noank has been the home or second home of several artists and other notable people, and has been represented in several works of art.

Maitland has many picturesque parks along lakes, which attract many boaters.

* Blokzijl has a small marina, surrounded by picturesque old brick houses from the 17th century, looking like miniatures of the Amsterdam canal houses.

Originally settled in the 1820s and 1830s, this small town has a rich history, centered around the picturesque area known locally as " Webster Corners ".

Medemblik further has a picturesque small innercity with many houses from the 17th and 18th century, two big churches, an old orphanage, a town hall and, of course, castle Radboud, which is just at the border of the innercity.

Rolling fields and picturesque barns belong to farms that have changed little in the last two hundred years, but it has not been immune to growth.

As agriculture and industry have receded, Baldwinsville has evolved into an attractive and picturesque riverside community.

For instance, Rättvik still has its picturesque old church located by the water, where it is surrounded by old " church stables " where the church visitors used to leave their horses.

The farm has become a tourist attraction, featuring a picturesque windmill in a vast field, a canoe livery, tours and the annual Bob Evans Farm Festival.

The town has a picturesque common, presided over by a Federal style church and bordered by antique homes.

The town also has its own cricket ground at the castle, often cited as being one of the country's most picturesque.

Eriks Hale, the strip that jots into the sea south of the town, has a very fine beach for swimming and bathing, and while there you can see the picturesque little huts and the open sea.

In the centre of the village, the picturesque Ferrybridge Hotel and the Albert Hotel, named to commemorate a visit by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, both have traditional bars and each also has a small restaurant.

Celle is the southern gateway to the Lüneburg Heath, has a castle ( Schloss Celle ) built in the renaissance and baroque style and a picturesque old town centre ( the Altstadt ) with over 400 timber-framed houses, making Celle one of the most remarkable members of the German Timber-Frame Road.

Yonkers ' excellent transportation infrastructure, including three commuter railroad lines ( now two, the Harlem and Hudson Lines ) and five parkways and thruways, as well as its 15-minute drive from Manhattan and picturesque " period " homes and apartments, made it a desirable city in which to live.

By the mid 1990s, the village center had been completely made over into a picturesque, high-end retail destination catering primarily to weekend residents and out-of-town visitors.

Its Lake Carasaljo and surrounding pine trees made for a picturesque holiday.

By the end of the 18th century, the ruins were considered picturesque and sublime, attracting visitors and artists, and paintings of the castle were made by Thomas Girtin, Moses Griffith, Julius Caesar Ibbetson, Paul Sandby and J. M. W. Turner.

Rugby's Victorian architecture and picturesque setting have since made it a popular tourist attraction.

He noticed that the descendents of the slaves were still being oppressed and that the Afro-Cuban culture was degraded and made picturesque for the sake of tourism.

The picturesque Ilulissat Icefjord has made Ilulissat Greenland's most popular tourist destination and tourism is now the town's principal industry.

This reputation, along with the city ’ s picturesque homes and surrounding landscapes have made tourism the main economic activity as the only large-scale mining operation here is coming to a close.

Access to the observatory is made through the picturesque Elqui Valley.

The park, comprising a picturesque lake and idyllic woodland, is host to several examples of early historic dwelling places such as a Crannóg ( A man made island dwelling place that came into being in the Early Iron Age with some showing usage through to 17th Century.

For example, in the 1860s Iron Cove Creek was a freely flowing waterway which in places broadened into ponds that made excellent and picturesque swimming holes.

From the north-west a tough but picturesque ascent can be made to the northern end of Longside Edge before following the ridge route to the summit.

Cadbury's also built the Bournville indoor swimming baths on Bournville Lane ( separate buildings for ' girls ' and men ), the Valley pool boating lake and the picturesque cricket pitch adjacent to the factory site, that was made famous as the picture on boxes of Milk Tray chocolates throughout the 1950s and early 1960s.

René Clair was born and grew up in Paris in the district of Les Halles, whose lively and picturesque character made a lasting impression on him.

Blackie was a Radical and Scottish nationalist in politics, of a fearlessly independent type ; possessed of great conversational powers and general versatility, his picturesque eccentricity made him one of the characters of the Edinburgh of the day, and a well-known figure as be went about in his plaid, worn shepherd-wise, wearing a broad-brimmed hat, and carrying a big stick.

The island castle's picturesque appearance, with its bewitching island setting against a dramatic backdrop of mountains, has made it a favourite subject for postcards and calendars, and something of a cliché image of Scottish Highland scenery.

The video to the third single “ Seven seas, seven lands ” (“ Siedem mórz, siedem ladów ”) was made in picturesque landscape in the US ( precincts of LA ).

Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty ; made in the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed England's leisured travelers to examine " the face of a country by the rules of picturesque beauty ".

Picturesque meaning literally " in the manner of a picture ; fit to be made into a picture " was a word used as early as 1703 ( Oxford English Dictionary ), and derived from an Italian term pittoresco, meaning, " in the manner of a painter ," William Gilpin's Essay on Prints ( 1768 ) defined picturesque as " ... a term expressive of that peculiar kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture " ( xii ).

Overlooking Skaha Lake, Kaleden is made up of picturesque vineyards and lakeview orchards.

Thanks to its picturesque, charming nature, clean seaside, the coexistence of peacefulness and the cosmopolitan life and mainly the clean environment and the hospitality of the local people, have made the town one of the biggest tourist resorts of the area.

In the years from 1832 to 1840 Haliday collected insects in many parts of England, most often with Francis Walker and John Curtis at Darent, Southgate and other parts of Southern England. And with one or both of these lifelong friends, who shared his passion for picturesque scenery, he made collecting excursions to the Western Isles, Skye the Isle of Bute and other parts of Scotland ( 1834 ), South and West Ireland ( 1835 ) the Lake district ( 1836 ) and North Wales ( 1837 ).

During the Martial Law, many Poles first made acquaintance with Fydrych's work through his picturesque dwarf images painted on building walls, covering up the paint that was used to cover up anti-regime slogans.

The scenery throughout this reach is most picturesque, culminating at the point above the eastern extremity of the loch, known as the ' Queen's View ' ( Queen Victoria made the view famous in 1866, although it is probably named after Queen Isabel, wife of Robert the Bruce ).