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Example sentences for: portico

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Revolutionizing the whole stuffy concept of law courts, with not a marble column or portico in sight, this sparkling structure spreads out in tiers of glassed-in walkways, offices, and courtrooms, and also shops, restaurants, a small cinema, and a skating-rink.
At the far end of the Via dell’Abbondanza, visit two of the town’s best villas: the House of Loreius Tiburtinus, for its beautiful peristyle garden of fountains, water channels, and cascades, one of them with paintings of Narcissus and Pyramus and Thisbe; and the House of Julia Felix, big enough to have been perhaps a luxury hotel, with its own bathhouse and a handsome portico of slender marble columns around the peristyle.
From a Gothic portico in the middle of town, beside the massive 13th-century campanile, a staircase of 90 steps takes you down to the sanctuary’s 11th-century bronze doors.
Their portico protected the tomb of Cecrops, the mythical founder of Athens.
The carved portico is especially fine, with a statue of Our Lady of Mercy under a canopy.