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Example sentences for: portico

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The villa, with its classical portico to catch the summer breezes, was the Renaissance architect’s “visiting card” for scores of commissions, copied worldwide, especially on the cotton plantations of America’s Deep South, where elegant porch-living became an article of faith.
Monchique is a small market town, known for its handicrafts and the famous Manueline portico of its 16th-century Igreja Matriz.
Only the inner courtyard of Rome’s finest Renaissance palace is accessible to the public, but its grand portico and the handsome stuccoed vestibule leading to it make it well worth a visit.
The yellow-and-white church, originally constructed in the 15th century, has a beautiful Gothic portico with carved capitals, but looks like a colonial church you might find in Brazil, due to its reconstruction and remodeling in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The carved portico is especially fine, with a statue of Our Lady of Mercy under a canopy.