The town stands on high ground; it is about seven hundred feet above the sea level.
Three earlier towns have stood in the same general area.
"It is seeming to be in the place the town now stands."
From 1851 to 1866 a magnificent town stood where farmland is today.
At the time when the church was built, a small medieval town stood on the hill.
The town, once deep under water, stands on dry land.
Near its mouth stood the town of the same name.
There is a vacant field to the side of the ponds where the town once stood.
The place where the town now stands, however, was already settled in Roman times.
The town stood empty for most of a year.