Instead of towering office blocks, the architectural features of Al Ain are the city's forts.
It is indeed a fabulous realm of maharajas and their majestic forts and lavish palaces.
Larger forts, some of which predated the wall, garrisoned the troops and housed their dependants.
Poindexter, enthralled by the history, restored the ruined forts and transformed the ranch into a world-renowned resort.
In 1850, Denmark ceded all forts and property rights on the Gold Coast of Africa to Britain.
Ruts cut by hundreds of years of wagon wheels can be seen in the stone gateways of forts.
Children treated the fairways as a vast playground, the bunkers as makeshift forts.
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It is potentially one of the largest campaigning forts in Wales and may transform understanding of the Roman conquest.
It was in one of these forts I first heard Led Zeppelin IV - forever known as ZOSO.
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It is the gateway to a state of amber forts and lake palaces that attracts about 10% of India's foreign tourists.
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About 150 soldiers and camp followers have set up home in authentic ridge tents, within the recently preserved Napoleonic forts on the site.
"Scotland has more known vitrified forts than anywhere else in Europe and here in Stirling we have our own that reflects our warlike past, " he said.
Instead of the drab concrete houses, dusty lanes and untidy shops usually found in rural India, forts, palaces and temples jostle with each other in the bustling town square.
Across much of New England, streets were empty of cars and dotted instead with children who had never seen so much snow and were jumping into snow banks and making forts.
Starting at 8 am and usually lasting until 11 am on Friday and Saturday, Islam guides people through the confusing warren of alleys to 400-year-old forts, tranquil Christian cemeteries and colonial mansions.
Finally, we saw a larger-than-life LEGO forest spring up in Australia and we had a blast reviewing the Bildopolis Big Bilder -- a kit for making awesome forts out of cardboard.
Certainly it takes a few visits, or one very long one, to make your way through the ornate forts and palaces of Northern Rajasthan, luxuriously tented Ranthambore tiger safaris and colonial splendor of urban Mumbai.
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But in present-day Ghana, then called the Gold Coast, there were over 30 more slave forts, built and maintained by almost all of the European trading powers of the day: the Swedes, Danes, French, British, Dutch and Portuguese.
Once you have finished exploring the forts and palaces, take some time to relax at the exquisite Kaya Kalp, a 99, 000sqft spa located in the ITC Mughal hotel, which takes guests on a sensorial journey back to an era of excess and conquest.
And whether future generations here will look up from their fields sometimes at sunset, at the mud forts and checkpoints built in these final years, and think for a minute or two of the men who fought and died so far from home.
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