The harbour lies to the east of the foundation site at the original citadel on a hill overlooking a peninsula protecting the harbor on the south, where now are located the Quai de la Citadelle and the Jettée de la Citadelle.

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

During the days of the Roman Empire, the settlement of Augusta Raurica was founded 10 or 20 kilometres upstream of present Basel, and a castle was built on the hill overlooking the river where the Basel Münster now stands.

Tipton, a small hill overlooking White River and the surrounding flat, heavily forested and swampy valley.

The ruins of this castle still stand on a steep hill overlooking the town.

However a Danish priest on top of a hill overlooking the battle prayed to God, which meant that the Danes moved closer to victory the more he prayed.

It is sited on the slopes of a Corallian limestone hill within the Blackmore Vale, overlooking the flat Oxford Clay valley of the small River Cale, which drains into the Stour.

Fife Airport lies a mile ( 1. 5 km ) to the north and on a hill overlooking the farm of Redwells stands Blythe's Folly, a 15. 6m ( 52 feet ) high tower built in 1812 by an eccentric Leith shipowner.

* The Basilica of Jesus the Adolescent, run by the Salesian religious order, occupies a hill overlooking the city.

Paolo painted the Lives of the Church Fathers in the cloisters of the church of San Miniato, on a hill overlooking Florence.

Its main campus is in Kelburn, a suburb on a hill overlooking the Wellington central business district, where its administration and humanities & social science and science faculties are based.

Site of the Menelaion, the shrine to Helen and Menelaus constructed anciently in the Bronze Age city that stood on the hill of Therapnes | Therapne on the left bank of the Eurotas ( river ) | Eurotas River overlooking the future site of Dorian Sparta.

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.

It is situated on a hill in Greenwich Park, overlooking the River Thames.

In apocalyptic literature, Mount Megiddo, the hill overlooking the valley where the current kibbutz is located, is identified as the site of the final battle between the forces of good and evil at the end of time, known as Armageddon and mentioned in the New Testament in Revelation 16: 16.

In 1806, Fort Benjamin Hawkins was built on a hill overlooking the Ocmulgee Old Fields, to protect expanding settlements and serve as a reminder of U. S. rule.

There is a hill overlooking the town called Cross Hill, which has a fort on it with some Victorian cannons and a pair of BL 5. 5 inch Mark I naval guns, that were originally fitted to HMS Hood ; the latter were used to repel a U-Boat German attack during World War II with surprisingly great success-the Germans did not approach the island again.

According to traditional Jewish belief, the tomb of Rav Ashi is situated on a hill overlooking Kibbutz Manara, Israel.

His tomb is on a hill overlooking Chania ( Profitis Ilias, ).

The petrified remains of one of them turned into a hill overlooking the city.

Examples include Santa Barbara, which contains Alameda Padre Serra ( Father Serra's Street ), running from Mission Santa Barbara along the base of the Riviera, the hill overlooking the city ; Serra Cross Park in Ventura, site of the cross Serra erected at Mission San Buenaventura's founding ; and San Diego, in which Father Junipero Serra Trail runs through the Mission Trails Regional Park to Santee.

Saint Catherine's Castle ( Castillo de Santa Catalina ) sits on the top of a hill overlooking the city.

Zorah was situated on the crest of a hill overlooking the valley of Sorek, and was fortified by Rehoboam ().

One of Jesus ' famous teaching episodes, the Sermon on the Mount, is supposed to have been given on a hill overlooking the lake.

On a hill overlooking the city Artemisia planned to place a resting place for her body, and her husband's, after their death.

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.

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.