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Example sentences for: courtyard

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Built from the eighth to the 12th centuries, San Pietro stands at the ba ck of a grassy courtyard with Etruscan sarcophagi, beside two crumbling medieval towers.
Don’t miss the graceful, 19th-century statue of Leda and the Swan in the inner courtyard.
On the same side of the courtyard are the Museu de Arte Sacra (Museum of Sacred Art), recently closed for restoration, and Capela de São Miguel (St. Michael’s Chapel), with fine azulejos and a massive baroque organ.
At the eastern end of Via San Vittore, beyond a noble atrium courtyard, the church of Sant’ Ambrogio is the city’s most revered sanctuary, built from the ninth to the 12th centuries.
The courtyard around the Temple was expanded to accommodate hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, and the Temple Mount was shored up by retaining walls made with great stone blocks.