Before us was a tangled garden, with tall black cypresses; beyond, torchlight and music.

The tops of tall cypresses hardly showed above the roofs of the courts they grew in.

As if on cue, a lovely gray cloud passed over a 30-foot Irish yew and then a tall cypress farther off.

In the shade of many tall cypress trees rose marble obelisks made soft by dappled shadows.

And there was the ferry, floating on the dark lake, screened by tall cypresses and so rather gloomy.

The view from the garden is of buff-brown hills etched with vertical green lines in the midground formed by tall Italian cypress.

And a windbreak of tall thin cypresses on the north side of the property to screen out the suburban houses that keep proliferating.

The convent, set among tall cypresses, is dedicated to St Nino, who is buried here.

Beautifully situated on a green and tranquil hillside below the town center, it is planted with a stand of tall and stately cypresses.