Park Güell ( ) is a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of El Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

An acropolis (; akros, akron, edge, extremity + polis, city ; plural: acropoleis or acropolises ) is a settlement, especially a citadel, built upon an area of elevated ground — frequently a hill with precipitous sides, chosen for purposes of defense.

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

There is little doubt that a Mycenaean megaron stood upon the hill during the late Bronze Age.

The Dargāh Sharīf of Khwāja Mu ' īnuddīn Chishtī is situated at the foot of the Tārāgaṛh hill, and consists of several white marble buildings arranged around two courtyards, including a massive gate donated by the Nizām of Hyderabad and the Akbari Mosque, built by the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān.

It is reputed to be one of the oldest hill forts in India and the world.

Adhāī Din Kā Jhonpdā, a Vaishnava Hindu temple built in 1153 and converted into a mosque by Quṭbuddīn Aybak in 1193, is situated on the lower slope of Tārāgarh hill.

Accrington is a hill town located at the western edge of the Pennines within a bowl and largely encircled by surrounding hills to heights of 300-400m.

The Teufelsberg is in fact an artificial hill composed of a pile of rubble from the ruins of World War II.

Although the butterfly effect may appear to be an esoteric and unlikely behavior, it is exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill may roll into any of several valleys depending on, among other things, slight differences in initial position.

Bavaria is geographically the same region as the Böhmer Wald ( forested hill slopes ).

According to Geoffrey Keating, the main Beltane fire in medieval Ireland was on the hill of Uisneach, in what is now County Westmeath.

Biblical scholars believe Bethlehem, located in the " hill country " of Judah, may be the same as the Biblical Ephrath, which means " fertile ", as there is a reference to it in the Book of Micah as Bethlehem Ephratah.

The Israelites cross the Jordan through the miraculous intervention of God and his ark and are circumcised at Gibeath-Haaraloth ( translated as hill of foreskins ), renamed Gilgal in memory ( Gilgal sounds like Gallothi, I have removed, but is more likely to translate as circle of standing stones ).

In the badlands of South Dakota, a banshee is said to wail upon a hill near Watch Dog Butte.

The remains are both burial-sites and buildings, and in the south part of this area, there is also a hill fort called " Borgen " (" The Fortress ").

The ' burg ' element is often confused with ' berg ' meaning hill or mountain ( cf.

The Bodmin Beacon Local Nature Reserve is the hill overlooking the town.

Ben Nevis in Svalbard is a 922 metre-high mountain south of the head of Raudfjorden, Albert I Land, which was named after the Scottish hill.

It is also a second language for most of the minority groups and indigenous hill tribes there.

Located on a hill ( phnom ), it is currently one of the most endangered of the monuments, having become a favorite perch for tourists eager to witness a glorious sundown at Angkor.

When there is a hill to be climbed, flights of many locks in short succession may be used.

Corcovado hill lies just west of the city center but is wholly within the city limits and visible from great distances.

This now is identified as Barbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort in Wiltshire, near Swindon.

The eastern and western sections of the valley were separated by a hill the Dutch called Kalck Hoek, ( Dutch meaning Chalk Hook ), named for the numerous oyster shell middens left by Native Americans.

For the incline from Euston Station to Chalk Farm, Stephenson devised a system that would draw trains up the hill by a rope using a stationary steam engine near The Roundhouse.

The pond, fed by an underground spring, was located in a valley, with Bayard Mount ( at 110 feet the tallest hill in lower Manhattan ) to the northeast and Kalck Hoek ( Dutch for Chalk Hook, named for the numerous oyster shell middens left by the indigenous Native American inhabitants ) to the west.

" That night, Chalk and his 40-strong unit ambushed Japanese forces from a hill overlooking the Gona – Sangara road, before retreating into the jungle.

The chalk hill is part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation.

A tor is a large, free-standing residual mass ( rock outcrop ) that rises abruptly from the surrounding smooth and gentle slopes of a rounded hill summit or ridge crest.

The site of Avignon was settled very early on ; the rocky outcrop ( le Rocher les Doms ) at the north end of the town, overlooking the Rhône River, may have been the site of a Celtic oppidum or hill fort.

The first element, " dun " translated from Gaelic, has been accepted as a ( fortified ) hill, and is assumed to be referring to the rocky outcrop at the site of Malcolm Canmore's tower in Pittencrieff Glen ( now Pittencrieff Park ).

Geologically, the low hill known as " The Beacon ", in the centre of the present town, is formed of breccias that are an outcrop of a similar formation on the west side of the Exe estuary.

The hill is a rocky outcrop to the North of the town centre and the tower was built as part of a wartime communications and observation network.

The outcrop erodes away as it gets sandblasted, and the spherules ( which seem to resist erosion better than the rest of the outcrop does ) fall out and roll down the hill.

The hill, an outcrop of Argillite is the highest point in the Naparima Plains.

The chalk hill outcrop was not only a distinctive landmark known in Roman times but it also fit the profile of the type of areas that was usually the first to be cultivated-it was near an important town and had easy access to a navigable river.

For the adventurous, the hill outcrop of the island makes for a challenging climb and the summit holds an inherent scenic beauty of the far reaching ocean.

The hill is a lower greensand Cretaceous outcrop situated amongst Jurassic strata of marl and clay, at the border between the chalk of South-East England and the granite of Devon and Cornwall.

The hill is largely grass and heather, with only one significant outcrop of rock, West Crag.

The site is located on a limestone outcrop or hill that jutted into Lake Kopais ( now drained ) or formed an island within it.

The hill is the largest limestone outcrop in the Lower Kinabatangan area, Sandakan division, in the Malaysian state of Sabah.