Another beautiful building is the Propylaea, the entrance gate of the Acropolis.

During the 3rd century, under threat from a Herulian invasion, repairs were made to the Acropolis walls, and the " Beulé Gate " was constructed to restrict entrance in front of the Propylaia, thus returning the Acropolis to use as a fortress.

Phidias also designed the statues of the goddess Athena on the Athenian Acropolis, namely the Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon and the Athena Promachos, a colossal bronze statue of Athena which stood between it and the Propylaea, a monumental gateway that served as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens.

In the 2nd century AD, Pausanias noted the statues both of Hygieia and of Athena Hygieia near the entrance to the Acropolis of Athens.

In the hall at the entrance to the Acropolis other works of his were preserved.

* The Acropolis is surrounded by a Hellenistic wall contemporary with the Propylaea and the stairway leading to the entrance to the site.

The temple is the earliest fully ionic temple on the Acropolis, compensated by its prominent position on a steep bastion at the south west corner of the Acropolis to the right of the entrance, the Propylaea.

A Propylaea, Propylea or Propylaia (; Greek: Προπύλαια ) is any monumental gateway based on the original Propylaea that serves as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens.

The evidence for that is the off-center doorway and the position near the entrance to the Acropolis.

Today the Propylaea has been partly restored, since 1984 under the direction of Dr. Tasos Tanoulas, and serves as the main entrance to the Acropolis for the many thousands of tourists who visit the area every year.

In the grand court of the Palace, notable for its tiers of Moorish galleries that looked down on the maelstrom of vehicles below, Vernon's station was at the entrance.

Hub, nosing about, spotted reporters in the lobby, so Andy was hustled away quietly through the hotel's service entrance in a strange car which Hub had procured somewhere.

The entrance of the Stadtisches Gesangverein ( Bonn's civic chorus ) was worth all the waiting, however, as the young Rhenish voices finally brought the music to life.

Owen was surprised to see Mrs. Gertrude Parker playing the one-arm bandits that were cunningly arranged by the entrance.

The Texas Historical Commission has erected a historical marker near the entrance of what was once his plantation.

After proceeding up the nave, he was to kneel and pray at the topmost step of the entrance of the choir, into which he was to be introduced by the bishop or his commissary, and placed in his stall.

It was used as entrance music by various American sports teams, most notably by the Chicago Bulls during their 1990s NBA dynasty.

It was also used as the entrance theme for Ricky Steamboat in pro wrestling of the mid 1980s.

Since 1885, when the Duke of Montrose constructed a road over the eastern shoulder of Craigmore to join the older road at the entrance of the Trossachs pass, Aberfoyle has become the alternative route to the Trossachs and Loch Katrine ; this road, known as the Duke's Road or Duke's Pass, was opened to the public in 1931 when the Forestry Commission acquired the land.

Robert Adam designed the screen which was added to the entrance front in 1788.

It was mainly a trading city due to its location at the Black Sea's only entrance.

Built before strict federal Interstate Highway standards were developed during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, the expressway was plagued by tight turns, an excessive number of entrances and exits, entrance ramps without merge lanes, and continually escalating vehicular loads.

" The British did not know quite what to make of President Woodrow Wilson and his conviction ( before America's entrance into the war ) that the way to end hostilities was for both sides to accept " peace without victory.

An ornate granite drinking bowl which serves the needs of thirsty dogs at the entrance to Bodmin ’ s Priory car park was donated by Prince Chula Chakrabongse of Thailand who lived at Tredethy.

On the south side of the great square was erected the Great Palace of the Emperor with its imposing entrance, the Chalke, and its ceremonial suite known as the Palace of Daphne.

At the western entrance to the Augustaeum was the Milion, a vaulted monument from which distances were measured across the Eastern Roman Empire.

Anne experienced icing problems, it was decided to construct a much larger fortification at Louisbourg to improve defences at the entrance to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and defend France's fishing fleet on the Grand Banks.

Prior to 2001, the northern end of the freeway portion of US 131 was located at the southern entrance to Cadillac.

Heracles was able to overpower Cerberus and proceeded to sling the beast over his back, dragging it out of the underworld through a cavern entrance in the Peloponnese and bringing it to Eurystheus.

The burial chamber is normally located at one end of a rectangular or trapezoidal cairn, while a roofless, semi-circular forecourt at the entrance provided access from the outside ( although the entrance itself was often blocked ), and gives this type of chambered cairn its alternate name of court tomb or court cairn.

Just inside the entrance is The Stone of Anointing, also known as The Stone of Unction, which tradition claims to be the spot where Jesus ' body was prepared for burial by Joseph of Arimathea.

The 17th century promenade " la Motte à Madame ", and a monumental stairway overlooking the rue de Paris entrance to the Thabor.

The north and east wings each consisted of suites of rooms built around courtyards, with a monumental entrance in the middle of the east wing.

Moreover, he erected a chapel devoted to Christ Chalkites near the Chalke Gate, the monumental entrance to the Great Palace.

The monumental entrance, dating from the period of Francis I, is made from sculpted and painted wood.

An unusual feature is the monumental entrance with its projecting stone porch.

McKim, Mead and White's Pennsylvania Station combined frank glass-and-steel train sheds and a magnificently proportioned concourse with a breathtaking monumental entrance to New York City.

Outside the United States there is another sculpture of Alma Mater on the steps of the monumental entrance to the Universidad de La Habana, in Havana, Cuba.

Here there was a monumental entrance.

In fact it does not have a monumental entrance or a driveway up to the castle.

From 17 November 1899 to 23 December 1956, a monumental statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps by Emmanuel Frémiet stood at the entrance of the Suez Canal.

The monumental entrance of Pope Julius II | Julius II in the church of San Francesco

Although patterned after triumphal arches, these were built for quite different purposes-to memorialise war dead or to provide a monumental entrance to a city, as opposed to celebrating a military success or general.

The entrance hall and the grand staircase underwent a radical makeover, although original features such as the monument by Belgian sculptor Paul Du Bois honouring manager and musical director Dupont ( 1910 ), and a number of monumental paintings ( 1907-1933 ) by Emile Fabry were preserved.

The Golden Gate was emulated elsewhere, with several cities naming their principal entrance thus, for instance Thessaloniki ( also known as the Vardar Gate ) or Antioch ( the Gate of Daphne ), as well as the Kievan Rus ', who built monumental " Golden Gates " at Kiev and Vladimir.

A triumphal arch was erected to a design by the architect of Gatchina, Antonio Rinaldi ( 1771, built 1777-1782 ), forming a monumental entrance, the gift of Catherine The Great to Count Orlov for his efforts during a recent outbreak of plague at Moscow.

In the course of his career Jennewein produced at least five monumental eagles: one at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, another on the Arlington Memorial Bridge, connecting Arlington with Washington, D. C., the third on the Federal Office Building in New York, the fourth, a Spanish-American War Memorial in Rochester, New York.

At the outset an effort was made to recover fresco painting and monumental art, and Schnorr found opportunity of proving his powers, when commissioned to decorate with frescoes, illustrative of Ariosto, the entrance hail of the Villa Massimo, near the Lateran.

In that, they created, at the entrance of Paghman, a European style monumental gate, similar to that of the Paris Arc de Triomphe.

T. Macridy uncovered the monumental entrance to the sanctuary in 1905 and returned for further explorations with the French archaeologist Charles Picard in 1913.

In 1235, an early monumental water-powered alarm clock that " announced the appointed hours of prayer and the time both by day and by night " was completed in the entrance hall of the Mustansiriya Madrasah in Baghdad.

A westwork ( also westwerk, the German word ) is the monumental, west-facing entrance section of a Carolingian, Ottonian, or Romanesque church.

The lodges and monumental entrance were designed by James Bunstone Bunning.