Painted in brilliant colors with lighting reminiscent of a Turner seascape, it portrays a fishing village with a line of majestic bluffs rising behind it.
He thought Tyre an economically thriving but insufficiently holy place that should be reduced to nothing more than a fishing village with plenty of open space to "spread fish nets" to dry.
Four centuries after the Golden Age, a period of prosperity and artistic achievement that transformed Amsterdam from a fishing village into a wealthy hub of international trade, this delightful city is in the middle of a new renaissance.
Not long ago, Taganga was a sleepy fishing village -- a seaside retreat where in-the-know travellers could to tie up a hammock for a few days of tranquillity.
Some visitors compare it to a Greek fishing village, others to a glamorous town on the French Riviera.
No longer a sleepy fishing village, not yet a bustling metropolis, the city itself is on the brink of transformation.
Quests involve holding off zombie attacks, helping to fortify an encampment of survivors which then becomes the first quest hub (with workbenches for crafting and repair), driving to a nearby fishing village to look for a boat.
The best place to stay is Paternoster, a whitewashed fishing village with blue-and-red boats on its sandy beach.
Blue Ventures, a British nonprofit, sponsors eight trips a year to a remote fishing village on Madagascar's southwest coast.
The Moonlight was co-designed by a Dutch team and local residents of a small fishing village outside of the capital, Phnom Penh.
Born in a Basque fishing village in 1895, Balenciaga opened his couture house in Paris in 1937 to immediate critical and popular acclaim.
After completing my family medicine residency in Macon, Georgia, I established a clinic in a small fishing village in Alabama to help its many uninsured residents.
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In Galaxidi, a small fishing village in Greece, revellers hurl multicoloured flour to celebrate one of the holiest (and most ironically named) days of the year - Clean Monday.
The trail ends just 2km southeast of the Mount of Beatitudes in Capernaum, a large fishing village at the time of Jesus and said to be the home of Saint Peter.
Transformed in the early 1800s by the Prince Regent (later King George IV) from a south-coast fishing village into a fashionable spa, Brighton boasted a railway connection with London as early as 1841 a couple of years after Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot published their historical findings on how to fix images made by the effects of light.
During interludes, the women playfully mime vignettes reflecting life in a farm or fishing village, including treading on roof tiles, unrolling a mat, catching a mouse or tying herrings.
Look beyond the interesting scene that contributing editor Tim Treadgold turned up in a South Australian fishing village ( click here to view story) and past Anthony Plummer's wonderful photography, and you see this is really a story about property.
Wukan, a coastal fishing and farming village of about 12, 000 people, is a collection of squat stone homes connected by narrow pathways.
Continuing north, after pausing to let a herd of goats cross the road, we reach Kariya: a village of wooden fishing shacks and a red and white lighthouse built in 1880.
Cala di Volpe hotel's architect Jacques Couelle has sculpted a contemporary take on the ancient Mediterranean fishing village.
The museum's collection vividly charts Dubai's rapid progress from a tiny pre-oil fishing and pearling village - and one of the world's first free-trade ports - through to the Arabian metropolis it is today.
When an unseasonable April thunderstorm brought an abrupt end to emu-tracking, we took refuge in the fishing village of Cervantes at a tough-looking pub called the Ronsard Bay Tavern, whose menu offered, in addition to burgers and meat pies, steamed rock lobster and rock lobster pie.
Life was so bad in her fishing village that even rice porridge was a luxury.
But these days, it has a more genteel atmosphere as an upmarket suburb and peaceful fishing village.
It is hard to believe that only a few years ago, this was the humble, sleepy fishing village of Bagan Lalang, in Sepang.
Industrial Ota was built on the foundations of an ancient fishing village, where men cast their nets as a group and housewives dried seaweed together.
Rumoured to be the most beautiful sea kayaking spot in the country, the small fishing village on the west side of Glandore Harbour has a secluded beach cove and a network of around 10 sea caves and inlets.
Kylesku, and the nearby fishing port village of Lochinver, have made this nook of Scotland a place of pilgrimage for food lovers.
It makes little sense to reconstruct an entire village from scratch amid contaminated fields close to depleted fishing grounds for a greatly diminished population.
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