1.   An enormous Croatian flag, brightly lit through the night, rides high above the medieval fortress that squats above this ugly town like a heavy helmet.

2.   Another place worth visiting is the Maritime Museum, housed in a portion of the Chateau de Brest, a medieval fortress overlooking the harbor.

3.   David said that the islands of rock that dotted the landscape looked like rival medieval fortresses.

4.   Do we live in a modern world of technological breakthroughs or a medieval fortress trapped in religious dogma and intellectual ignorance?

5.   It has Baroque cathedrals and a medieval fortress and a swift-flowing river and quaint little streets and elegant shops, hotels and restaurants.

6.   Miraculously preserved from the effects of the modern world, this castled city retains the atmosphere and structure of an old medieval fortress.

7.   Only in Portugal can a vast outdoor museum of the earliest human habitation make a nearly intact medieval fortress seem almost modern.

8.   Suffice it to say that, seen from afar, it offers the extraordinary spectacle of a medieval fortress that seems to have changed little over the centuries.

9.   A huge Croatian banner adorned a medieval fortress overlooking the city.

10.   A huge Croatian banner adorned the medieval fortress to the southeast overlooking Knin.