1. The city's other great architectural treasure is the Alcazar, the huge Moorish palace founded on an 8th-century fortress, which was infuriatingly closed throughout the Saturday I spent in Seville. Times
2. Both are crowned by the remains of the Parthenon, that geometric and architecturaltreasure widely copied - from Birmingham, England, to Nashville, Tennessee. BNCB
3. The tower, like other of the medieval remains of Sauveterre (all of them numbered and labelled by the tourist authorities, as if they were clues in an architectural treasure hunt), is alive with pigeons and with palombes, wisely sitting out the shooting season in town. BNCB