Due to its rough and awkward hillside topography, corridors throughout the site provided a means of communications for administrative and defensive operations, also affording privacy to the palatial residential quarters.
Nicolae's cabinet moved from Al Hillah to palatial quarters near the conference hall in Baghdad, and in a matter of days, the heads of the ten regions would join them.
Inside, beyond a large stark courtyard softened by palm trees, stood more towers and palatial quarters.
Next he'd probably take me to his palatial quarters at the officers' club and let the younger men beat up on me for sport.
Scarcely ever left the building-not that he had any need to, as he had always had palatial quarters there-and then only under heavy guard.
Now, the twin paper-white Edwardian mansions have been reinvented as a luxury boutique hotel, providing guests with plush, palatial quarters on the green and pleasant land skirting the city.
I am glad to see this club in such palatial quarters.
It was a surprisingly unassuming structure; many moderately wealthy traders had larger, more palatial quarters.
But it isn't just the palatial quarters or the fact that if the canned food is cold in the winter, it gets warmed up in the microwave oven.
Today, Gutfreund and his second wife, Susan, a former flight attendant, live in palatial quarters on Fifth Avenue, with their 2-year-old son John Peter.