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...Their dark rock towers and deep river valleys afforded protection to local Highland clans who organised themselves according to an ancient code, the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini....
...Loop Head, County Clare, €9.75mn Where On the Loop Head peninsula in the south of County Clare, near the fishing village of Kilbaha....
...We see the town’s bell tower and quay, and the sea beyond, through a scrim of trees, their sinuous trunks dividing up the scene into panels like the leading in stained glass....
...Now they were setting the church tower rocking to the sound of heavy metal. Without those new ringers it is unlikely that our village bells would be heard for this coronation. We are not alone....
...It’s 5pm, the sun is streaming into my office in the tower of the Castello di Solomeo, Umbria, and the church bells are tolling. This is my place of tranquillity, where I think and create....
...East of the road, beyond the fields and villages, I found a lone Roman fort....
...Shazeer found it worked even better this way, when stripped of any bells and whistles they had tried to add on....
...Ang Lama, a Sherpa, is from the village of Phaplu....
...Our horse took 10 minutes to pull our sleigh to the apartment building, the bells on its harness tinkling all the way....
...In the second episode, a man stands in a bell tower, lifts two hammers from a wall and raises one above his head. He grunts. He swings. Clang. As one arm rises, the other falls. Clang....
...Others stop at Dürnstein, the prettiest of the riverside villages, its monastery bell tower a delicate porcelain blue....
...The vineyards are getting closer, as are the rooftops of the village of Budanje and its tiny church tower. Finally, we glide down beside them and our feet touch the ground....
...Briccole — poles of oak buried in the lagoon bed every 50 metres or so — mark out the deep water channels, and we followed from one to the next until the bell tower of Santa Maria Assunta on the island of...
...from a neighbouring village....
...Up ahead was the skyline familiar to anyone who has ever set foot on this island: a little hill rising prettily above the Mediterranean sea, crowned with a mighty castle and the flat-sided bell-tower of...
...He points to the “thousands of hours” that have been devoted to the flag park’s tiniest details, like the design and placement of its gondola towers....
...bell tents with double bed and butler service, and a daily menu prepared by a Michelin-starred chef – is re-erected each day in stunning remote locations....
...In the village of Biertan, three colossal citadel walls, studded with towers, ring the church. A long wooden stairway leads upwards, like Jacob’s ladder, to the north entrance....
...All around sprawled the old town, a harmonious jumble of bell towers, palm trees and pitch-roofed winery buildings....
...One day a series of chance encounters led them to a house in Umbria with a bell tower and an adjoining chapel. Antonio, now 77, remembers his first encounter with the place....
...Its stock jumped more than 160 per cent above the IPO price to touch $315 after the opening bell before easing to close at $253.93....
...For all that it goes back to the source, there are homages to the film, from exact replicas of the 1947 nuns’ crucifixes to a new version of the famous bell-tower sequence....
...With towers, battlements, a moat and drawbridge, the castle itself lives up to all the fairytale expectations....
...Here and there are villages, a few dozen lichened cotto roofs clustered around brick bell towers that have sounded their peals since long before Italy itself existed, and when this was the hinterland of...
...A bell is becoming increasingly useful to alert pedestrians who step out into the street while gawping at their smartphones, an occurrence that becomes more frequent with every passing day....
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