Portico

A portico is a Greek style porch.

Gallery

Short visual history of porticos

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  Ancient Egyptian portico of the Mastaba of Seshemnefer IV (Giza pyramid complex, Egypt)

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  Minoan portico of the Knossos Palace (Crete, Greece)

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  Ancient Greek portico with Ionic columns of the Temple of Athena Nike (Athens, Greece)

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  The Portico of San Luca in Bologna, Italy, which is possibly the world's longest.

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  Ancient Roman portico of the Maison Carrée (Nîmes, France)

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  Islamic portico of the Great Mosque of Kairouan (Kairouan, Tunisia)

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  Indian portico of the Sanchi Temple 17 (Sanchi, India)

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  Chinese portico of the Forbidden City (Beijing, China)

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  Romanesque portico of the Church of San Miguel (Sotosalbos, Spain)

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  Gothic portico of the Chartres Cathedral (Chartres, France)

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  Brâncovenesc portico of the Stavropoleos Church (Bucharest, Romania)

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  Renaissance portico of the Villa Capra "La Rotonda" (Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)

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  Baroque portico of the Church of the Val-de-Grâce (Paris)

Portico Media

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  The portico of the Croome Court in Croome D'Abitot (England)

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  Temple diagram with location of the pronaos highlighted

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  Temple of Portunus in Rome, with its tetrastyle portico of four Ionic columns

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  The hexastyle Temple of Concord at Agrigentum (c. 430 BCE)

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  The western side of the octastyle Parthenon in Athens

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  Etruscan portico of a temple model (now in National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome)

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  Louis XVI portico of the Théâtre de la reine, part of the Petit Trianon (France)

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