Careful blending and leveling of the layers finally produced this image. It's not perfect, but a lot of the details have been wonderfully 'developed'. You can clearly see all of the stonework, the wooden roof, the cobblestones, and you can now even tell the gender of the persons in the middle ground.

Thank you, RAW.

You may be asking yourself if this would have been possible with a JPEG file..?

No way!
And to prove it, I saved the unprocessed RAW file as a JPEG (highest quality) and opened the JPEG back in Camera Raw (yes, you can open a JPEG in Camera Raw) so I could produce the same amount of different smart object layers as I did with the RAW file. I followed the exact same procedures as before.

We do not see things as they are. ǝɹɐ ǝʍ sɐ sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝs ǝʍ