Nevertheless, Canberra stands as an exemplary city design and is located halfway between the ski slopes and the beach.

The upper gate tower stands beside the southern gate in the city wall, along the road to Lucerne and Bern.

Over the years, the Nile gradually shifted westward, providing the site between the eastern edge of the river and the Mokattam highlands on which the city now stands.

Orton's legacy stands to live on in his hometown, Leicester ; the development of the " cultural quarter " of the city, a former industrial area, continues apace and the new Theatre, Curve, the central development in the area, has a new pedestrian concourse outside the theatre's main entrance named " Orton Square.

The French Legation was built in 1841, and still stands in Austin as the oldest frame structure in the city.

A giant 15-meter ( 50 ft ) tall gold-plated statue of him stands on a rotating pedestal in Ashgabat, so it will always face into the sun and shine light onto the city.

It is then revealed that the entirety of the city whence THX came is all underground, as he stands before a large setting sun in a red sky, while birds intermittently fly overhead ( indicating that life is possible on the surface ).

Also a small fort was built at the tip of the peninsula where the city of Valletta now stands and was named Fort St. Elmo.

Its honorific title is Συμπρωτεύουσα ( Symprotévusa ), literally " co-capital ", and stands as a reference to its historical status as the Συμβασιλεύουσα ( Symvasilévousa ), " co-reigning " city of the Byzantine Empire, alongside Constantinople.

* Saint Denis, first Bishop of Paris, and two of his disciples are beheaded on the road to the Temple of Mercury that stands atop a hill outside of the city.

Today Saturn's statue stands in a piazza in the centre of the city.

Built on a large area of council-owned land, the city council and Italian national government were recently involved in a trade-off with the Putin government in Moscow, exchanging the piece of land on which the church stands, for, albeit indirectly, a military barracks near Bari's central railway station.

The city of Corfu stands on the broad part of a peninsula, whose termination in the Venetian citadel () is cut off from it by an artificial fosse formed in a natural gully, with a seawater moat at the bottom, that now serves as a marina and is called the Contrafossa.

Pliny indeed mentions a great calamity which the city had sustained, when ( he tells us ) half of it was swallowed up by the sea, probably from an earthquake having caused the fall of part of the hill on which it stands, but we have no clue to the date of this event ; The Itineraries attest the existence of Tyndaris, apparently still as a considerable place, in the fourth century.

Along with Symphony Woods, many other stands of mature trees have been maintained in Columbia, including the large Middle Patuxent Environmental Area in the western part of the city between Harper's Choice and River Hill villages, protecting much of the river valley from development.

It stands next to the Jakobstor, a mediæval city gate named after it.

In Germany the term Stadtbahn ( to be distinguished from S-Bahn, which stands for Stadtschnellbahn ) was used to describe the concept, and many in the UMTA ( now called the Federal Transit Administration ) wanted to adopt the direct translation, which is city rail ( the Norwegian term, bybane, means the same ).

In 2010, a robot discovered a long arch-roofed passageway underneath the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl which stands in the ancient city of Teotihuacan north of Mexico City, dated to around 200 AD.

In these Commentaries a new interpretation of the apocalyptic accounts is given: Babylon no longer represents the city of Rome, but Córdoba, seat of the Umayyad emirs of Al-Andalus ; the Beast, once a symbol of the Roman Empire, now stands for the Islamic invaders who in this time threatened to destroy Western Christianity and who made raids on the territories of the Asturian Kingdom.

The city centre, reconstructed after World War II, stands on approximately a metre ( 3. 3 ft ) of flattened rubble.

The area on which the modern city stands was once home to Native Americans of the Hopewell culture, who migrated into the area sometime before the first millennium.

Bujumbura today stands as an undeveloped city, but remains to develop along with its country.

Since the late 1980s, however, the city began a rapid spread north to where Yangon International airport now stands.

Globally it stands 19th by city population, 56th by GDP and 29th by the population of its metropolitan area.

At ( 53. 704 °, − 2. 199 °), north-northeast of Manchester city centre and north-northwest of central London, Bacup stands on the western slopes of the South Pennines, amongst the upper-Irwell Valley.

Not long ago an acquaintance, a slick-headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the city, stood on the balcony puffing his first cigarette in weeks.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

We fashioned beards, put them on, and reported to the Hetman at the city desk.

He paused for a moment to look at me, then went on to the city desk to deliver his `` Today '' column.

Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

Morgan and his corps were placed on the west side of the Schuylkill River, with instructions to intercept all supplies found going to the city and to keep a close eye on the movements of the enemy.

Certainly all can applaud passage of an auto title law, the school bills, the increase in teacher pensions, the ban on drag racing, acceptance by the state of responsibility for maintenance of state roads in municipalities at the same rate as outside city limits, repeal of the college age limit law and the road maintenance bond issue.

High-speed buses on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute an alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency can do for this city.

West Berlin's Mayor Brandt vigorously demanded a firmer stand on the dismemberment of his city and won votes by it.

A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were.

He had on his gray tweed overcoat and his city hat, and his brief case lay on the bench.

From there I turned left along Cumhuriyet Cadesi past more hotels and a park on the left, Republic Gardens, and came in a few moments to Taksim Square, one of the hubs of the city, with the Monument of the Republic, erected in 1928, in its center.

There I got off, crossed the square, and on the side directly opposite the gate found a good restaurant, hard to come by in this part of the city.

For those who plan to travel to Europe by one route and return by another some agencies offer a service whereby you can pick up a car in one city on arrival and leave it in another city, or even another country, when you are ready to return home.

No matter if your children are at the movies, in school, visiting their grandmother, or on a field trip in some distant city, they will be upon you magically within seconds after you pick up the phone.

But this is a public park and it's a city ordinance that the statues cannot be crawled on ''.

If it is possible for an enemy to put an atomic bomb on a city, it should be equally possible to put a cloud of biological agent over that city.

The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).