Also called downhill skiing, typically, takes place at a ski resort or dry slope.

The highest point, 360 feet, is found twelve miles north of Pereslavskoe ( Drugehnen ) at the ski resort then called the Galtgarben.

A large resort called Saltair has been operated on the southern shore of the lake off and on for many years.

In 1992, the Mashantucket Pequot opened their resort casino called Foxwoods.

In the U. S., the word château took root selectively, in the Gilded Age resort town of Newport, Rhode Island, the châteaux were called “ cottages ”, but, north of Wilmington, Delaware, in the rich, rural “ Château Country ” centred upon the powerful Du Pont family, château is used with its original definition.

Like the Kennedys, Quimby " speaks with a Boston accent, throws money at political problems, and vacations in a coastal resort called the ' Quimby Compound.

Similarly, in the 1943 novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Howard Roark is chosen to design a resort called Monodnack Valley and it is subsequently revealed that the investors had sold 200 % of the shares, convinced that the project would be a flop and that they had chosen Howard Roark as the worst possible person for the job.

* Ermioni, a resort town in Greece originally called Hermione

He sends her out as the final resort to report on the invasion of an alien race called the Morolians ( モロ星人-Moro Seijin ).

Plant built a lavish 500 + room, quarter-mile ( 400 m ) long, US $ 2. 5 million eclectic / Moorish Revival-style luxury resort hotel called the Tampa Bay Hotel among of manicured gardens along the banks of the Hillsborough River.

In the 18th century, the discovery of a spring from the river Neckinger in the area led to Bermondsey becoming a spa leisure resort, as the area between Grange and Jamaica Roads called Spa Road commemorates.

In 1971 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ( January 12, 1918 – February 5, 2008 ) introduced Transcendental Meditation ( also known as TM ) at a former popular resort called Hobergs.

At the same time a resort hotel called Congress Hall was constructed at the springs, named after the famous resort Congress Hall at Saratoga Springs, New York.

Once called Grayson Springs after a nearby resort, the name was changed in 1882 to honor the resort's owner, Manoah Clarkson.

What is now the Paducah and Louisville Railway built a station in the area in 1874, and a summer resort and hotel called Paine Hotel developed around a shaded ridge on Muldraugh Hill, what came to be called Pleasure Ridge.

Mars Hill Mountain also features a ski resort called Big Rock Ski Area.

A large housing development called Chesapeake Ranch Estates is nearby, as well as the tourist resort town of Solomons.

There is also a small lake called " de Zandenplas " which is a popular holiday resort.

It is home to a ski resort on Big Mountain called Whitefish Mountain Resort.

A country resort called the Orange Mountain House was established in 1847 just north of town.

Butler was the location of a health resort run by Benedict Lust called " Yungborn " that opened on September 15, 1896.

Farrow built a railroad station, shops and even a resort hotel called The Pines with the idea of attracting people.

The fashion for all things Scottish was maintained by Queen Victoria, who helped secure the identity of Scotland as a tourist resort, with Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire becoming a major royal residence from 1852.

As of 2008 Bellevue Beach Park marks the location of where the Queen City Beach resort once sat.

Beach Haven, known on LBI as the " Queen City ," is a late 19th century beach-front resort originally established in 1873 to house wealthy summer residents from Philadelphia.

Among Kingsland's notable places is the 1901 Victorian style Antlers Hotel, a railroad resort in Kingsland that fell into disrepair in the early 1900s but was purchased and restored in the 1990s and re-opened as the Antlers Hotel, with the Junction House Restaurant in Queen Anne architecture and an historic railroad district.

The concept spread rapidly to other British coastal towns including several on the coast of North Wales and notably Rhyl, and Llandudno, the largest resort in Wales and known as " The Queen of the Welsh Resorts ", a title first implied as early as 1864.

It became a fashionable resort town again following visits by the Duchess of Kent, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and benefited from a new estate on Mount Pleasant and the building of the Trinity church in 1827, and improvements made to the town and the provision of facilities such as gas lighting and a police service meant that by 1837 the town population had swelled to 9, 100.

Llandudno, " Queen of the Welsh Resorts ", a title first implied as early as 1864, is now the largest seaside resort in Wales, and lies on a flat isthmus of sand between the Welsh mainland and the Great Orme peninsula.

It is largely a Victorian town, whose success as a tourist resort was due to Queen Victoria visiting the area in 1842, and the arrival of the railway in 1863.

The three main dining venues on the mainland part of the resort are the Queen ’ s Chair, serving Pan-Adriatic – Italian cuisine and overlooking the Bay of Budva, the Olive Restaurant, overlooking the beach, which serves a range of cut-to-order meats and seafood prepared on two signature wood-fired grills and an olive-wood-fired rotisserie and the Beach Café, in an alfresco setting, flanked by shady cypress trees and century-old olive groves.

Their tomb in a crypt beneath the church afterwards erected to Saint Pancratius was long a place of resort for pilgrims, as detailed in various documents of the seventh century, such as an Itinerarium ( or guide to the holy places of Rome compiled for the use of pilgrims ) still preserved at Salzburg, the list, preserved in the cathedral archives of Monza, of the oils gathered from the tombs of the martyrs and sent to Queen Theodelinda in the time of Gregory the Great, etc.

In 1985, Ramone joined Steven Van Zandt's music industry activist group Artists United Against Apartheid, which campaigned against the Sun City resort in South Africa.

Ramone and 49 other recording artists — including Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards, Lou Reed and Run DMC — collaborated on the song " Sun City ", in which they pledged they would never perform at the resort.

Safdie has designed six of Canada's principal public institutions as well as many other notable projects around the world, including the Salt Lake City Main Public Library, the Khalsa Heritage Centre in India, the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort in Singapore, the United States Institute of Peace headquarters in Washington, DC, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.

* Ocean City, Maryland is a popular beach and resort town.

It is home to the popular vacation resort area of Ocean City, as well as wild habitats on Assateague Island and in the Pocomoke Swamp.

Also in the later 19th century, the seaside resort of Ocean City was founded.

The expansion of Ocean City since the 1960s has turned the northern part of the county from a summer resort to an expanding year-round community.

Once again, City Council did not accept the proposal without their own amendments, specifically the Fowler Amendment, which read that " all persons employed by the City should express their willingness to execute an agreement, undertaking that they will not either collectively or individually at any time go on strike but will resort to arbitration as a means of settlement of all grievances and differences which may not be capable of amicable settlement.

Los Gatos was also near the Southern Pacific resort town of Holy City, along the rail line in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

In 1963, after approval by referendum of the voters of the City of Virginia Beach and Princess Anne County, and with the approval of the Virginia General Assembly, the two political subdivisions were consolidated as a new, much larger independent city, retaining the better-known name of the Virginia Beach resort.

City buses were used before Hurricane Katrina hit to transport people to a refuge of last resort, the Louisiana Superdome.

To frame the picture, Malle foreshadows the great transition of the famous resort town in the opening credits by featuring footage of the implosion of the once-grand and historic Traymore Hotel on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.

As the nearby Lake Mohave developed into a major tourism destination, and as the casino and resort town of Laughlin, Nevada, sprouted up across the river, Bullhead City grew rapidly.

The renovated / gentrified downtown Cathedral City or " the ( Cathedral ) Cove " became a popular cultural niche for Gay and Lesbian couples with two of the valley's largest gay bars and a major private gay resort located in downtown proper.

Fenwick Island, however, is somewhat less " quiet " than " the Bethanies " because it is immediately across the state line from Ocean City, Maryland, which has a reputation as a lively vacation resort.

In the early 20th century, with better transportation options, the summer resort became the year-round home of many, and the terrapin farm at Barbee's Pavilion became world famous for the export of terrapins for stew, including to the major restaurants of New York City and to the Czar of Russia.

It is part of the Belgrade Lakes resort area, and is included in the Augusta, Maine micropolitan New England City and Town Area.

Ocean City, sometimes known as OC, or OCMD, is an Atlantic Ocean resort town in Worcester County, Maryland, United States.

Lake Ann is located 12 miles west of Traverse City a beautiful, year-round resort community in northwest lower Michigan.

Skiing in the area is common winter sport in Northern Michigan, with the closest resort being Boyne Mountain near Boyne City.

During the late 19th century, the lake became known as a local vacation area served by an " interurban trolley " which ran from the City of Lansing to the resort on the south side of the lake.