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Example sentences for: portico

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The Sé’s unusual cathedral tower, main portico, and two interior chapels are all that remain of the original 13th-century Gothic building.
In the center, the enchanting Villa dell’Isola, a pavilion surrounded by a little reflecting pool and circular portico, epitomizes all the magic of the place.
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.
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.
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.