The castle itself is located in a relatively small elevated oval plaza.

The 21-foot-high staircase, which led to the elevated plaza around the twin towers, offered an escape route for an untold number of people on Sept. 11, 2001.

Even the elevated plaza had its problems, Ms. Burden said.

This is 200 yards north of where Alex walks home at night through an elevated plaza (now demolished) kicking rubbish.

South of the main plaza are a series of smaller elevated plazas with more restricted access, bordered by multi-roomed buildings.

As an elevated plaza leading to nowhere, it is not on anyone's itinerary.

The building is on an elevated plaza that contains a private garden enclosed by brick walls and a wrought iron fence.

The current fountain is located in the center of the elevated plaza.

The buildings have crisp limestone piers framing broad windows and are grouped in an L-shaped elevated plaza.

There, tucked under an elevated plaza but open to the sky, was a semicircular basin fed by a saucerlike fountain that almost seemed to weep.