Example sentences for: pyrenees

How can you use “pyrenees” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But they’re also active sports enthusiasts, eager to escape the city for a round of golf, sailing, or skiing (only a couple hours away in the Pyrenees).

  • In five minutes the funicular (closed mid-October through February) lifts you through pine woods to the top, where you have a spectacular panorama of the city, the sea coast, and, on very clear days, both Mallorca and the Pyrenees.

  • Some of Spain’s very best works of art are in this museum, such as the great 12th century Cristo Pantocrator from the apse of the church of Sant Climent de Taüll in the Pyrenees.

  • When Celtic peoples crossed the Pyrenees in the first millennium b.c., they intermarried with the existing Iberian population and built a series of hilltop fort communities or citânias, the finest example of which is at Briteiros (see page 73).

  • Each year brings new developments in the Pyrenees, most within two hours of Barcelona: Núria, at 1,963 meters (6,439 feet); La Molina, whose slopes rise to 2,537 meters (8,321 feet); and Vallter, with 12 slopes and a top station at 2,500 meters (8,200 feet).


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