Belize boasts important sites of the earliest Maya settlements, majestic ruins of the classic period, and examples of late postclassic ceremonial construction.

Among majestic Roman ruins set against an azure sea, Sebastian Cuisenier walked alone, a rare visitor to a site that almost anywhere else in the world would be thronged with tourists.

The Palatino (Palatine) is a beautifully atmospheric area of leafy gardens, majestic ruins and memorable views.

"I see majestic ruins even in the architecture of the skies," he wrote in the Preface to one of his splendid and marvelous books.

In addition to the majestic ruins of the abbey, classified as a monument historique in 1902, the three-hectare estate includes agricultural buildings, cellars, a gatehouse and a medicinal garden.

The air is fresh and fragrant, the people warm-hearted, and in the distance, beyond citrus groves and the majestic ruins of a Gothic abbey, the azure sea glistens and shines.

The Trifels people, in their day, five hundred years ago, could go and muse over majestic ruins that have vanished, now, to the last stone.

People were now pouring out of the lodges and majestic ruins that hugged the overgrown hills.

Belinsky's criticism has been taken into account: some poems were built upon the juxtaposition of majestic ruins and lush landscaped of the 'classic' Rome to the everyday squalor of contemporary Italy.

About 40 miles (64 km) to the northeast are the majestic ruins of Persepolis, a capital of ancient Persia.