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 landlord of Leiden, situated in a stronghold on the hill, was initially subject to the Bishop of Utrecht but around 1100 the burgraves became subject to the county of Holland.

Had the 20th Maine retreated from the hill, the entire Union line would have been flanked, and would have most likely lost the battle of Gettysburg, although there is much debate on the subject.

Between these two escarpments the anticline has been subject to differential erosion so that geologically distinct areas of hills and vales lie in roughly concentric circles towards the centre ; these comprise the Greensand Ridge, most prominent on the north side of the Weald, where it includes Leith Hill, the highest hill in south-east England, the low-lying clay vales of the Low Weald, formed of less resistant Weald Clay, and finally the more highly resistant sandstones of the High Weald at the centre of the anticline, whose elevated forest ridge includes most notably Ashdown Forest.

The first full-length collection, The Broken Ground ( 1964 ), develops many of Berry's fundamental concerns: " the cycle of life and death, responsiveness to place, pastoral subject matter, and recurring images of the Kentucky River and the hill farms of north-central Kentucky "

He had a fond memory of climbing a hill with his father, and another fond memory of his father introducing the subject of geometry to him.

Its row of picturesque thatched cottages, climbing up a steep hill, are often the subject of calendars and postcards.

* Taralga, New South Wales: a windbreak of Ulmus procera shelters St Luke's Rectory, on a hill overlooking the village, and subject to high wind.

During World War I Caledonian Pine trees were planted on the summit by Major W P Colfox MC and the hill now forms an iconic subject for artists and photographers.

Built on a geologically unstable hill of London clay, the castle has often been subject to subsidence ; this, combined with the sale of its stonework in the 16th century has led to it now being ruined.

Chakma handicrafts and fabrics are subject to widespread tourist attraction in Chittagong Hill Tracts | Chittagong hill region in Bangladesh.

The lake drained away ; the reason for which is the subject of ongoing debate among geologists, few option believed the water was drained through underground waterways on the tagog apu limestone area, with its thousand even ten thousands years of water erosion on the limestone underground hill which build a natural water disposal of the great Lake Bandung.

The name of the hill between Alderton and Dumbleton is the subject of local rivalry.

In Scandinavia many hill forts were part of beacon networks to warn against invading pillagers.

Over the years, many highlight reel catches have been made by center fielders running up the hill to make catches.

Jacob Piatt Dunn, longtime secretary of the Indiana Historical Society, noted that " hoosier " was frequently used in many parts of the South in the 19th century for woodsmen or rough hill people.

The hill was the site of the Battle of Spion Kop in the Second Boer War, where over 300 men of the Lancashire Regiment died, many of them from Liverpool.

The Romans built a military camp, which they called Lousanna, at the site of a Celtic settlement, near the lake where currently Vidy and Ouchy are situated ; on the hill above was a fort called ' Lausodunon ' or ' Lousodunon ' ( The ' y ' suffix is common to many place names of Roman origin in the region ( e. g. ) Prilly, Pully, Lutry, etc .).

Gates came in many forms, from the simple stone buttress and timber blocks described by Avery in his work "' Stoning and Fire ' at hill fort entrances of southern Britain ” ( Avery, Michael, World Archeology, Vol.

As time went by, many medieval hill towns, including Montalcino, went into serious economic decline.

Foot-trails are still primary transportation routes in many hill districts.

The Ridgeway passes near many Neolithic, Iron Age, and Bronze Age sites including Avebury Circle, a stone circle similar to Stonehenge ; Barbury Castle, Liddington Castle, Uffington Castle, Segsbury Castle, Pulpit Hill and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill, all Iron Age and Bronze Age hill forts ; Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic chieftain burial tomb ; the Uffington White Horse, an ancient chalk horse carved into the hillside near Uffington Castle ; and Grim's Ditch, a section of earthwork near Mongewell created by Iron Age peoples as a possible demarcation line.

The 1997 tables ironed out many anomalies, but despite it being the highest-profile hill list in UK, it is still considered by some to be not wholly satisfactory.

* Hillside Inn, opened originally as a spa at mineral springs on the hill above Wyoming village around 1841, has entertained many important persons, including Theodore Roosevelt and his family and Susan B. Anthony,

* In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth Amon is the Sindarin word for hill and forms the prefix of many places such as Amon Hen and Amon Amarth

In the second phase of Battle when Khalid ibn Walid's Cavalry attacked Muslims at the rear changing the victory of Muslims to defeat, rumors of Muhammad ’ s death were spread many Muslim were warriors routed from the battle field, Umar too was initially routed but hearing that Muhammad was still alive he went to Muhammad at the mountain of Uhud and prepared for the defenses of the hill to keep the Quraishi army down the hill.

The small size of the county's communities, scattered along the beaches, coastal hills, and mountains of the Santa Lucia range, provides a wide variety of coastal and inland hill ecologies to support many kinds of fishing, agriculture, and tourist activities.

She had many suitors, but her father, the druid Tadg mac Nuadat, had foreseen that her marriage would lead to the loss of his home on the hill of Almu, so he refused them all.

Two TV transmitter towers — Crystal Palace Transmitter ( 640 ft ) and Croydon Transmitter ( 500 ft ) — stand on the hill at Upper Norwood, making the district a landmark location, visible from many parts of the London area.

The hill on which Islington stands has long supplied the City of London with water, the first projects drawing water through wooden pipes from the many springs that lay at its foot, in Finsbury.

Located on the side of the hill next to it is one of the Lutheran cemeteries in the city, which contains many tombstones of Germans.

During the Fascist period, many deputies of the opposition retired on this hill after the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, here ending-by the so-called " Aventine Secession "-their presence at the Parliament and, as a consequence, their political activity.

The landscape is especially beautiful during the fall, and the focal overlooking hill, the Salem Knob ( historically a public park, now privately owned ) and surrounding area offers many photographic opportunities.

The rounded hill summit was recently purchased by the town and can be seen for many miles around.

It resulted in many flat hill tops that are commonly found in Boyd and Greenup Counties which are evident on aerial satellite imagery.

Many old working-class and middle-class homes sit empty or neglected, and many apartment complexes and a sea of kudzu are now located on the hill.