A massive multi-tiered walled city ...
A massive multi-tiered walled city built on a raised stone plateau: a broad grand staircase climbing the plateau face to a fortified gate, dense half-timbered townhouses with steep dark-tiled roofs packed on the terraces, an outer curtain wall with square towers, and crowning the summit a royal palace of pale stone with tall black Gothic spires and slender white columned towers
