Fantasyland at the original Disneyland features a central courtyard dominated by King Arthur's Carrousel, in front of which sits a sword in an anvil; several times each day a costumed Merlin helps a child pull the sword from it.

Two wings flare out from the point of the V, enclosing a trapezoidal courtyard dominated by a broad set of steps.

One of our party heaves a shoulder against a hidden door, and we enter a large courtyard, dominated by a 30-foot-high copy of Vladimir Tatlin's construction "Monument to the Third International."

Nowadays it is a discreet, little-visited place, with rosebushes and privet shrubs laid out in a courtyard dominated by an octagonal stone fountain.

After the peaceful Aroko, I wasn't ready for the Maina Sunset - it was built motel-style, and all the rooms opened on a courtyard dominated by a large swimming pool.

The pagoda complex itself consists of a small front courtyard, an antechamber with an altar to the Jade Emperor, a main chamber with an altar to Thien Hau, and a large rear courtyard dominated by the statue of Quan Am.

It was one of those expensive postmodern ferroconcrete structures, angular, minimalist, higher than it was wide, with windows inset like those of a medieval castle, and a heavy iron gate fronting a tiny courtyard dominated by a slender cryptomeria tree, a bonsaied dwarf juniper.

Nine guest buildings - each four stories high - are clustered around a central courtyard dominated by a large pool, the main lodge, the spa building and an elaborate fish pond.

The plan developed around a rectangular building with four rectangular towers, around an interior courtyard dominated by the chapel on the southeast wing.

Particularly attractive is the Auberge du Vieux Puits, a 17th-century inn built around a delightful courtyard dominated by an immense willow.