| Its circular shape is broken in the south by the Ogura and Nakayama promontories. |
| You leave the cliffs and promontories and blue sea gulfs behind, and corkscrew inland, past the roadside shrines with their solitary icons and flickering candles. |
| From the tip of the headland you are treated to a view of more unblemished promontories dotted along the coast. |
| First was the development of defended settlements, usually on hilltops or promontories that afforded natural defence. |
| The dark shapes that smudged the even line of the ocean were mountains, or perhaps promontories, riding high and magnificent upon the vastness of the water. |
| Urfa lies just at the foot of the hills, half enclosed by two bold limestone promontories. |
