Like many European villages, it has a complex history.

Like scores of central European villages, this one is dominated by an imposing castle from which the surrounding region was once ruled.

The pattern is rather like a string of European villages - appealing to shoppers who feel they've been malled to death.

"The overall appearance will be one of a European village, with brick facades and pitched roofs."

His best known works are the European villages and towns along rivers and canals.

A group of traveling college students arrive at a Eastern European village.

The film then cuts forward in time to a small European village where a series of mysterious murders are taking place.

"You know, like they have in European villages."

The latest addition, designed to resemble a 19th-century European village, includes 10,000 square feet of office space and a 12,000-square-foot restaurant.

European villages were often destroyed and looted by barbarians such as the Vikings.