citadel

It is a literal citadel with a natural, crystal-blue moat surrounding it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Celtic could finish off their stadium and make it a near 80,000 citadel, one of the continent's best, but they haven't done it.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026

In the waterfront building known as the red citadel -- once the seat of power -- visitors journey through a history that includes ancient art, Greek and Roman antiquities and Ottoman-era weapons and jewellery.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

Marie-Laure, a blind girl hiding from the Nazis in a walled French citadel, and Werner, a young German radio expert, find themselves connecting without even knowing it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025

With a gasp she looked up, braced for the sight of the citadel plunging from the sky.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

This evidence suggests that ritual specialists, perhaps priests, lived and performed religious functions in the citadels that may have required them to bathe in the large public bath and congregate in the hall.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Lebanon has five other sites on UNESCO's World Heritage list, most of them citadels and ancient temples.

From Reuters ● Feb. 5, 2023

I think the retreat from the Lost Cause has also meant a kind of raising of new citadels around the idea of the nation.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2021

In 1945, at 18, he turned up at the renowned University of Göttingen, one of the citadels of science.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2019

Now a few affluent evangelicals are directing their attention and money at some of the tallest citadels of the secular elite: Ivy League universities.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times