 Behind the tower, reached from the sixth level, was a saddle leading to the necropolis of the Kings and Stewards.Tolkien's map-notes for the illustrator Pauline Baynes indicate that the city had the latitude of Ravenna, a city on the Mediterranean sea, though it lay "900 miles east of Hobbiton more near Belgrade".The Warning beacons of Gondor were atop a line of foothills running back west from Minas Tirith towards Rohan.