Last weekend, as I walked up the small mountain just on the southern edge of Jackson, Wyoming, I was struck by a sense of the overall similarity between Jackson Hole and Salzburg, Austria (and probably many other locales).
In both places, there are fairly high, rugged mountains on two sides of the town; there's a river flowing through the town, and there is a substantial, built-up town in the river flats. But what really struck me was the small-ish mountains (buttes?) that stick up from the valley floors between the two mountain ranges.
Here is what I mean. This is a picture of the low mountains or hills in the Jackson valley with a high ridge of mountains (the Tetons) in the background and, of course, there are also high mountains behind me.
Now imagine those lower mountains/hills/buttes/whatever-they-are-called covered with evergreens with maybe a fortress or abbey thrown in, and imagine I was up on a much higher peak on this side of the river taking the photos. It might look something like these photos of Salzburg, which I took three years ago while visiting there.