Façade

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Facade of the Strasbourg Cathedral

A façade (how to say: /fəˈsɑːd/) is usually one side of the outside of a building. It is very often the front, but also sometimes the sides and rear. The word comes from French word façadecode: fr is deprecated (pronounced: [fasad]), literally meaning "frontage" or "face".

Façade Media

• Basilica di San Pietro (15042367249).jpg

  Carlo Maderno's monumental façade of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City

• The façade of the Panthéon in Paris illuminated at night on 27 May 2015 for the admittance of Germaine Tillion, Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz, Pierre Brossolette and Jean Zay to the mausoleum.

• Pompeii Street Scene by Luigi Bazzani, before 1927.jpg

  Façade of a 1st-century CE Roman domus in Pompeii, Italy

• Palatul Fundaţiei Regale Carol I, azi Biblioteca Centrală Universitară, crop vechi.jpg

  Part of the Central University Library of Bucharest (Romania)

• Bletchley Park.jpg

  The façade at Bletchley Park (UK) is a mix of architectural styles

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  Detail of a façade from Prague (Czech Republic)

• Façade of the town hall in Chojna (Poland)

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  The Haunted Mansion in Disneyland consists of a building and façade in the front, while the majority of the ride is outside the park in a connected building

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  Fantasy Gardens (British Columbia) was a theme park with an exterior designed to resemble many different medieval buildings

• Casa Chorizo Long.jpg

  Façade of a typical "Casa Chorizo" house with different ornaments and colors in Buenos Aires (Argentine)