amphitheatrically

Also, it is built amphitheatrically, meaning it is built like an amphitheater - half circular and built into a mountain side.

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Superintendent of Joubert Park (in the vicinity of the court) and had asked for permission to use an amphitheatrically seating arrangement in the park for the purpose of a group photograph of 156 people.

ANC Today 2007

I had spoken to the Superintendent of Joubert Park (in the vicinity of the court) and had asked for permission to use an amphitheatrically seating arrangement in the park for the purpose of a group photograph of 156 people.

ANC Today 2007

How vivid the shrubs, that embowered the slopes, with the woods, that stretched amphitheatrically along the mountains! and, above all, how elegant the outline of these waving Apennines, now softening from the wildness, which their interior regions exhibited!

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

It is a vast and lofty chamber, the floor covered with a mountainous heap of rocks rising amphitheatrically almost to the ceiling, and so disposed as to furnish at different elevations, galleries or platforms, reaching immediately around the chamber itself or leading off into some of its hidden recesses.

Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 By a Visiter Alexander Clark Bullitt

The citadel walls that crown the hill, on the slopes of which the modern city descends amphitheatrically into the sea, are remnants of Venetian fortifications.

Life Immovable First Part Kostes Palamas 1901

This pit or salle de spectacle was, as he himself informs us, arranged amphitheatrically, while above were galleries divided into separate boxes, each approached by a different staircase and entered by a different door.

The Life of Marie de Medicis Pardoe, Julia 1890

In proportion as we advanced, we saw the high mountains capped with snow, which form the chief and majestic feature, though a stern one, of the banks of the Columbia for some distance from its mouth, recede, and give place to a country of moderate elevation, and rising amphitheatrically from the margin of the stream.

Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814; or, The first American settlement of the Pacific 1854

Paris rises amphitheatrically, on either side the Seine, and the eye from the Pont d'Austerlitz seems to fly through the immense reach like an arrow, casting its shadow on every thing of beauty or grandeur

Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

Along the sunny bank of the limpid stream she sped; -- on, on toward a forest that bounded the valley at the further end, and rose amphitheatrically up toward the regions of the mountains!

Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf 1846