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terraces
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n. (plural of terrace English)
Wikipedia
The Terraces of the Bahá'í Faith, also known as the Hanging Gardens of Haifa, are garden terraces around the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. The gardens rest in the neighborhoods of Wadi Nisnas and Hadar HaCarmel. They are one of the most visited tourist attractions in Israel. The architect was Fariborz Sahba of Iran and the structural engineers were Karban and Co. of Haifa. Along with the Baha'i Holy Places in Western Galilee, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Usage examples of "terraces".
How many times had I stood across the street from this multistory compound, staring up like a lovestruck boy and waiting until the lights were lit in the upper apartments and terraces, hoping against hope for just a glimpse of the woman?
Below him the rooftops and terraces of Batmunkh Gompa stretched away into the shadows below the white shoulders of the mountains, and he found himself trying to imagine what it must be like to live here and wake up every day of your life to the same view.
Lots of smoked glass staring out at the Pacific, and terraces and balconies and sundecks from which to court the cancerous sun.
Jenny was sinking down the sheltered eastern side of the Wall, and he saw that it was a city, a vertical city with hundreds of terraces and balconies and windows all carved into the black rock, tier upon tier of shops and barracks and houses with balloons and brightly coloured kites drifting up and down between them like petals.
Around him the terraces of Batmunkh Gompa were speckled with lamps and lanterns, and the envelopes of balloon-taxis glowed from within as they rose and fell, like strange sea-creatures swimming around a coral reef.
A wave of panic spread across the square, and soon he heard warning gongs sounding in the densely-packed terraces of shops and inns below.
Soft lighting began to come on automatically on the terraces, with brighter patches around the bars and the huge buffet table.
The shrine was constructed of seven stepped terraces, a base of four square topped by three round.
Above the many terraces and lofty stories loomed a high, rounded tower where it was rumored more than one woman had been murdered in the murky past, earning the palace the dubious name of Palazzo della Morte.
The fields themselves were uneven, steeply sloped, studded with low terraces, heaps of fieldstone, walls of piled rock: much of it would be dead ground from the town.
The terraces were brilliant with late flowers, roses and hibiscus in soft carpets of reddish gold, white and bright scarlet.
The great valley, embracing villages, small towns, viaducts, rivers, waterfalls, with a beautiful, frank delight in its own lavish exuberant loveliness, spread itself before them in a thousand prodigal colours, plunging downhill by many half-seen terraces, rising beyond by as many more, through planes of trees and cliffs of rosy rock, to distant creamy summits on the skyline, cool against the bright, excited blue.
Ahead of them, two sharp peaks rose on either side of a narrow saddle covered by grassy terraces and truly ancient ruins, stone walls with no roofs.
Troy is a city of tall towers, and most of these are lighted late into the night, windows warm with light, courtyards glowing, terraces and balconies warmed by candles and firepits and more torches.
With the three other spearmen, I followed the exhausted hero as he walked six city blocks to the residence of Paris and Helen, a large compound with its cluster of regal terraces and residential towers and private courtyards.