In both cases, plans and elevations are symmetrical and each has a central tower, projecting two-storey porticoes with classical columns.
It was also a commercial centre: its porticoes provided shelter for a variety of vendors, whereas artisans and even the occasional dentist occupied the ground-floor apartments of its houses.
The board is apparently to build porticoes, to put in all kinds of lighting and to take it all out again.
The cityscape is further enriched by its elegant and extensive porticoes, for which the city is famous.
In some places they are like a cloister, surrounded with either colonnades or porticoes.
It has a conical dome, a yard, an iwan, several porticoes and a big wooden sepulcher.
Ionic columns supporting a well-proportioned entablature are used for the building's five porticoes, the principal one of which is topped by a pediment.
Its four arms finish in elegant porticoes with pediments under a domed rotunda over which a shining gilded angel holds the cross.
