The town, which still has preserved sections of its ancient walls, was defended by 3, 000 Royalists.
Last weekend, Turkish police found her body just outside the city's ancient walls.
But just south of its ancient walls lies Getsemani, Cartagena's hippest neighbourhood and one of Latin America's newest hotspots.
She disappeared Jan. 21, and her body was found 12 days later near the remnants of the city's ancient walls.
In her mind, she holds an alternative map of the centre of the city: one which, instead of modern buildings and highways crowded with traffic, has ancient walls, baths and residences dating back to Roman, Hellenistic and even prehistoric times.
Black men and women and children re-boarded the buses of Montgomery, newly desegregated, and sat in whatever seat happen to be open. (Applause.) And with that victory, the entire edifice of segregation, like the ancient walls of Jericho, began to slowly come tumbling down.
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Her body was found 12 days later, near the remnants of some ancient city walls.
Turkish news reports have described the man as a homeless scrap paper collector who used to hang around Istanbul's ancient city walls.
Ancient Roman walls, eloquent in their survival, stand everywhere without elaborate protection.
Many of those who live among the island's ancient stone walls and wisteria see the wave of outsiders as a threat to their rural ambience.
The state-run Anadolu Agency said the body of a woman was discovered Saturday evening near the remnants of ancient city walls and that police later identified it as Sierra's.
Kitty had taken me for a walk to Youghal to visit my first cousin Shirley Arbuthnot, one year older than me, who lived in Myrtle Grove, a Tudor mansion within the ancient town walls where my mother had grown up.
Over the next several months, the erstwhile housepainter whitewashed the brick, discoloring his lime with pigment to give the walls an ancient tint.
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Painter after painter capitulates to the allure of warm ochre-painted walls and ancient brick, umbrella pines and bare hills, revealed by low, diffused, golden light.
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Almost a billion "points" were collected during the Baillie survey and this raw data was processed to create high-resolution models showing field boundaries, walls and ancient monuments.
Men were walking by him, past him, alongside him, men with fur coats and bags of flour, with sacks of sugar and ceiling fixtures, with faucets, tables, chair legs, upholstery ripped from the walls of ancient Turkish houses that had fallen in the raid.
Dedicated to Christian saints, they are adorned with some of the earliest Christian artwork in the world, dating back to the 2nd Century, featuring paintings on the tunnel walls that depict ancient life.
They are making connections across old borders, breaking down traditional barriers, crossing ancient divides and smashing long-established walls of prejudice.
To the east of Bethlehem, chalky hills sink below sea level towards the Dead Sea and the ancient city of Jericho, immortalized in the Bible for its walls that tumbled under the blasts of trumpets (Joshua 6:20).
As we venture down the extraordinary Icefields Parkway in vans with our super-active, super-attentive guides, Dani Houston, Felicia Perricelli and Andrea McLeod, (pluck is their natural personality) the huge cascading walls of rock we pass look to have the remains of ancient mountain top cities.
The Honourable The Irish Society, the ancient London body that effectively put the London in Derry by building the city walls, still exists (quaint name included).
"We have not found any ancient objects linked to the context, and because the paintings are on ravine walls and in the rainy season the sediments are washed away, all we have is gravel, " said archaeologist Gustavo Ramirez, from the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (Inah).
In Ancient Rome, it was not permitted for bodies to be buried within the city walls.
The Ludlow Town Walls Trust was set up in 2007 to help attract funding for the scheduled ancient monument.
Indeed, the same balanced bread tray (without the bike) can be seen in ancient Egyptian paintings which, come to think of it, were also painted on walls.
Monteriggioni owes its importance, and its walls and towers, to the dominant position that it held over the via Francigena, the ancient and vital trading road between Florence and Rome.
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