Word Finder - promenades

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A prom (dance).

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A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.

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A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside.

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A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.

Since that year the ramparts have been levelled and their site occupied by public promenades and gardens.

A large proportion of the most prominent buildings are clustered round the spacious Schlossplatz, with its fine promenades.

At Bridlington Quay there is excellent sea-bathing, and the parade and ornamental gardens provide pleasant promenades.

The fortifications have been converted into promenades.

The ceremonial clothing of the god on the occasion of festal processions, undertaken in Egypt by the `` master of secret things," may be compared with the well-known Babylonian representations of such promenades.

Mostly they serve rather as beautiful promenades.

The last form the chief remains of the ancient fortifications, the site of which is now mostly occupied by promenades.

The main development of the city has been to the north of the river, which is crossed by numerous bridges and flanked by fine quays and promenades.

Until 1886 Olmiitz was one of the strongest fortresses of Austria, but the fortifications have been removed, and their place is occupied by a town park, gardens and promenades.

The town, with wide streets and picturesque promenades, is finely situated on a promontory, the base of which is washed on the south by the Cousin, on the east and west by small streams. Its chief building, the church of St Lazare, dates from the 12th century.

Owing to a great fire in 1777, the town is almost entirely modern; and its fortifications have been transformed into promenades.

The town consists of an old and a new part, and is surrounded by ramparts which have been converted into promenades.

But, in 1822, some of the bastions were converted into promenades, while in 1849 the rest of the fortifications were pulled down so as to allow the city to expand and gradually assume its present aspect.

The old fortifications have been dismantled and partly converted into fine promenades.

He wrote Lettres sur l'Algerie (1877) and Promenades japonaises (1880), and also some musical compositions, including a grand opera, Tai-Tsoung (1894).

The environs are laid out in pretty and shady gardens and promenades, the finest being in the park which surrounds the château of Prince Clary-Aldringen, built in 1751.

The town commands a magnificent view of the Brecknock Beacons, and is noted for its promenades on the banks of the Usk, and in the priory groves.

The only relics of the fortifications of the old town, whose place is now occupied by shady promenades, is the Florian's Gate and the Rondell, a circular structure, built in 1498.

The city is well built, with straight and well-paved streets, numerous plazas, public gardens and shady promenades.

Some damage was also inflicted on it in 1813, when Napoleon made it the centre of his operations; one of the buttresses and two arches of the old bridge were then blown up. The dismantling of the fortifications had been begun by the French in, 810, and was gradually completed after 1817, the space occupied by them being appropriated to gardens and promenades.

Castelsarrasin, situated on the left bank of the lateral canal of the Garonne and about a mile from the right bank of that river, is surrounded by promenades occupying the site of the old fortifications.

There are brine baths supplied from wells near Middlesbrough, a pier, gardens and promenades.

Some of the old fortifications of the town remain, but the ramparts and ditches have been laid out as promenades.

Belts of shrubbery may be placed round the slips outside the walls; and these may in many cases, or in certain parts, be of sufficient breadth to furnish pleasant retired promenades, at the same time that they serve to mask the formality of the walled gardens, and are made to harmonize with the picturesque scenery of the pleasure ground.

Pleasant gardens and promenades extend on the north side of the town, together with a botanical garden.

The ramparts of the old town have long been converted into beautiful promenades and gardens, the moats forming a chain of lakes.

It is still surrounded in part by old walls and bastions, while other portions of the whilom fortifications have been converted into pleasant promenades.

From it some pretty gardens and promenades (Kaiserin Augusta Anlagen) stretch along the bank of the Rhine, and in them is a memorial to the poet Max von Schenkendorf.

Its fortifications were dismantled in 1703 and have since been converted into public promenades.

Rostock was a fortress of some strength, but the old fortifications have been razed, and their site is occupied by promenades.

The first houses of Biickeburg began to gather round the castle about 1365; and it was not till the 17th century that the town was surrounded with walls, which have given place to a ring of pretty promenades.

It is built in the Dutch style, and lies in a sandy but fertile plain, surrounded by pleasant promenades which have taken the place of the old fortifications.

Along the Elbe, however, extend fine promenades, the Fiirstenwall and the Fiirsten Ufer.

Since the abolition of the old walls in 1863 and the conversion of their site into promenades, the town has rapidly assumed a modern appearance.

The streets are wide and its promenades and fine plane-trees make the town attractive; but the public buildings, the chief of which are the church of St Jean, a heavy building of the 18th century, and the citadel, which serves as barracks and prison, are of small interest.

The right bank of the Moselle is bordered for some distance by pleasant promenades, and an extensive park surrounds the ruins of an old stronghold which dominated the Grande Ville from an eminence on the east.

Havana is famous for its promenades, drives and public gardens.

The former ramparts between the Trave and the old town ditch have been converted into promenades.

Portions of the old walls survive, but the greater part of the former circumvallation has been converted into promenades and gardens, outside which a modern town has sprung up. The finest of its squares are the market-place and the so-called Sand.

It consists of the town proper, which is regularly built and surrounded with promenades on the site of the old ramparts, and of three suburbs.

In the promenades are monuments to Moltke, Bismarck and Karl Wilhelm, the composer of the Wacht am Rhein.

Its fortifications were destroyed by the French in 1807, and are now replaced by beautiful promenades.

The town is surrounded by walls, and outside these again by ramparts, now in great measure turned into promenades, and has extensive suburbs partly lying on the left bank of the river.

The town is surrounded by pleasant promenades, on the site of the old fortifications, and has numerous narrow and picturesque streets.

The old fortifications (Schanzen) have been converted into promenades, which command wonderful views of the snowy Alps of the Bernese Oberland.

One portion, acquired by the municipality, has been turned into promenades and gardens, the Steffens Park, outside the Olivaer Tor, fifty acres in extent, occupying the north-western corner.

It is surrounded by pleasant promenades occupying the site of the former engirdling fortifications.

To the north-west of the town are the Allees Marines, fine promenades which border the Adour for a mile and a quarter, and the Allees Paulmy, skirting the fortifications.

Other features of the town are the pleasant promenades and gardens on West Cliff, the antiquarian and geological museum, and an excellent golf course.

Its fortifications were destroyed by the French after Marengo (1799); the ramparts are now turned into shady promenades.