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Athens: Stoa of Attalos
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Palmyra, Syria: Grand Colonnade
Palmyra, Syria: Grand ColonnadeGrand Colonnade, Palmyra, Syria.

colonnade, row of columns generally supporting an entablature (row of horizontal moldings), used either as an independent feature (e.g., a covered walkway) or as part of a building (e.g., a porch or portico). The earliest colonnades appear in the temple architecture of antiquity, numerous examples of which survive in Greece and Rome.

Gerasa, Jordan: forum and colonnade
Gerasa, Jordan: forum and colonnadeRuins of the colonnade of the forum at the ancient city of Gerasa, modern Jarash, Jordan.

The Greek market hall, or stoa, as seen in Athens, is a particularly good illustration of a long colonnade serving a commercial purpose. Colonnades were much employed in the Baroque and Neoclassical periods, notably in St. Peter’s in Rome, which was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and completed in 1667.

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