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Example sentences for: travertine

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In a rare opportunity for concentrated effort by one man on such a gigantic project, Bernini completed the 284 travertine columns, 88 pilasters, and 140 statues of the saints in just 11 years, from 1656 to 1667.
For their churches and private palaces, popes and princes have stripped the Colosseum of its precious marble, travertine, and metal.
The pleasant daze induced on the three-tiered travertine staircase, festooned in spring with pink azaleas, was celebrated by John Keats as a “blissful cloud of summer indolence” before he died here in 1821.
The most important are clustered around three adjoining squares: the triangular Piazza della Cisterna named after the city’s 13th-century travertine well, surrounded by elegant palaces; the Piazza del Duomo, grouping church and town hall as the center of civic and religious power; and the Piazza delle Erbe market place with twin Salvucci towers.