citadel
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Fifteen people were injured when two trains crashed head-on Tuesday near the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, Peru's top tourist attraction, police and train operators said.
From Barron's • Dec. 30, 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
And discovered his house was built on a medieval citadel.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024
“Here I am at 68 years old and I’m walking around this citadel of my childhood,” he said during a Zoom interview last week.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2024
In his state of fatigue, his thoughts dipped like hummingbirds from this to that, always coming round to the fear—the fear of the citadel and all that had happened in it.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing citadel
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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