Sentence examples for magnificent facade from inspiring English sources

The great abbatial church was largely destroyed under Napoleon I, but the magnificent facade (13th 16th century) was spared.

These include a magnificent facade, complex woodwork and decorated mantelpieces on the first floor, grand arches separating the first-floor rooms and two Palladian windows on the second floor.

"When I first saw it, it had a magnificent facade, but the interior architectural details were largely concealed by Sheetrock or painted over," Mr. Hirsch, who has done brownstones and small lofts on the Upper West Side and Lower East Side, said as he showed prospective tenants around recently.

The enlightened policies of public artistic patronage like those of Cosimo and Lorenzo were a magnificent facade for their political success and survival and ultimately for their financial failure.

The Grand-Place lives up to its name, a fieldsized paved expanse bordered by rows of café terraces and a series of magnificent facades.

At dusk, there are hundreds of lights and the courtyard becomes a kind of theater set, with the star being the magnificent Renaissance facade, and sometimes, a lone cellist playing Bach.

It's easy to imagine the wonder of medieval travelers on approaching the Cathedral of St. James the Apostle in Obradoiro Plaza Beyond the magnificent Baroque facade, added in the 18th century, is the 12th-century Portico of Glory, considered one of the world's finest examples of Romanesque art.

All that remains of this classic Portuguese-style church, dating from 1602 and nearly destroyed by fire in 1835, is the grand staircase and the magnificent original facade, which has been propped up by steel beams in the back and appears, from certain angles, to be a stage set.

Originally conceived, it is said, as a modest holiday house with a swimming pool, it now boasts a magnificent columned facade reminiscent of the country palaces Russian tsars built in the 18th Century.

They looked magnificent, splayed across the facade of the great stone building.

The Gothic Church of Notre-Dame (early 13th century) has an original facade with magnificent carvings around its triple doorway.