| I leaned on the embrasure between the teeth of the merlons and watched the activity on the streets below slowly die as the shadows drew longer. |
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| High above Cochem on the river Moselle the imperial castle with merlons and oriels offers a lovely sight. |
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| Furthermore, these merlons have appeared in abundance in the palace of Manar, but have not appeared elsewhere. |
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| Like the minaret, the lantern is crowned with indented tapered merlons around a platform filled with a thick-ribbed dome. |
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| Its surface is covered with a vine tendril decoration, which is framed above and below by a thin border pattern of merlons. |
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| The crenellated outside walls have merlons that are shaped and perforated in a decorative pattern. |
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| Also Bressanone has a beautiful old town center of houses with arcades and merlons and its wonderful piazza del Duomo. |
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| Brunico is an important tourist destination: via Centrale is full of medieval portals, houses topped by merlons and wrought iron signs. |
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| Crenel: The gap inside of a crenellation between two merlons from which shots can be fired. |
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| The 29.10-metre-high tower has ogival single-lancet windows and merlons and overlooks the old town, offering spectacular views over the Langa and the plain to the mountains. |
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| Its external facades, surmounted with merlons, are flanked with round towers at the corners, semi-circular towers half-way along the walls and a cylindrical lookout tower on a square base on the southeast side. |
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| The thick ramparts, rising into the sky, are crowned by merlons, and have three gateways with bastions on either side. |
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| On the eastern side is the residential building, while on the defensive western side there is a small courtyard as well as the massive square keep, which still retains some of its original merlons and bartizans. |
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| Battlements were devised in order that warriors might be protected by the merlons and yet be able to discharge arrows or other missiles through the crenels. |
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| The gateway is crowned with a series of spaced merlons. |
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| The first, comprises of a building which is enclosed by an exterior wall, a construction from the X XI centuries, with some outstanding parts of wall, with merlons at the top, entered by the Albácar door. |
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| Glazed lime plaster would be applied on the interior and exterior of the dome of the mosque while a parapet of glazed tiles merlons would also be restored. |
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