
Façade composition from the Via dell’Abbondanza (Street of Abundance) in the Pompeii ruins, Italy.
In theaters of ancient Greece, the skene was a structure behind the stage providing a space for stage scenery, an additional elevated stage, and storage. The façade typically included columns, arches, statues and other architectural features. The ancient Greek Theater of Taormina’s construction starting in the 3rd century BC, and was later embellished by the Romans. The theater overlooks the Ionian Sea and Mount Etna, Sicily.
Marina San Giusto in the Port of Trieste, Italy on the Adriatic Sea.
The Pompeii Civil Forum was the core of daily life of the city and was the focal point of all the main public buildings for city administration and justice, business management, and trade activities such as markets. It also was the main places of citizen worship, a once-sophisticated Roman city.
It occupied quite a large area measuring 157 x 38 meters with a fine view of Mount Vesuvius – the ultimate source of the city’s destruction in 79 AD.
Built between 1887–1890 in the 19th-century style of Renaissance Revival architecture, the Galleria Umberto I is a public shopping gallery in Naples, Italy. The design intended to integrate commercial shops and businesses with public and social use space, with private residence on the third floor.
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Season’s Greetings!
C. S.
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