Now, the groundcar approached a village tucked into the rocky foothills; it was called Bilar Camp on their terrain maps.

The villages tucked away in vertiginous gorges were mostly inhabited by Berbers cultivating olives and dates.

LYNCHBURG, a horse-and-buggy village tucked into the hollows of southern Tennessee, is all charm - and irony.

After visiting dozens of sites, they finally discovered exactly what they were looking for: Grevasalvas, a rough farming village tucked away in the Alps.

Mr. Ghneimat, 28, was a father of four from Surif, a village tucked away in the rocky hills southwest of Bethlehem.

I imagine it with mountains and lochs, and little villages tucked away in glens.

Even though the villages and towns tucked behind the Shawangunks lie only 70 miles from New York City, they have faded in recent years, with hotels and other businesses ailing.

The scroll depicts autumnal scenes: a village tucked into the mountains, a slender waterfall in a rocky landscape, a bridge arching over a shallow river.

Today Pals and Peratallada are evocative medieval villages draped in bougainvillea with chic restaurants tucked among their stonework; nearby Monells is about to follow suit.

There is a feel of Brigadoon to Cooperstown, the lush village of baseball and opera tucked into the middle of an idyllic nowhere in upstate New York.