A portico (from Italian) is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in Ancient Greece and has influenced many cultures, including most Western cultures.
Some noteworthy examples of porticos are the East Portico of the United States Capitol, the portico adorning the Pantheon in Rome and the portico of University College London.
Bologna, Italy, is famous for its porticos. In total, there are over 45 kilometres of arcades, some 38 in the city center. The longest portico in the world, about 3.5 km (2 mi), extends from the edge of the city to Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca. In Turin, Italy, porticos stretch for 18 kilometres.
Palladio was a pioneer of using temple-fronts for secular buildings. In the UK, the temple-front applied to The Vyne, Hampshire was the first portico applied to an English country house.
A pronaos (UK: /proʊˈneɪ.ɒs/, US: /proʊˈneɪ.əs/) is the inner area of the portico of a Greek or Roman temple, situated between the portico's colonnade or walls and the entrance to the cella, or shrine. Roman temples commonly had an open pronaos, usually with only columns and no walls, and the pronaos could be as long as the cella. The word pronaos is Greek for "before a temple". In Latin, a pronaos is also referred to as an anticum or prodomus.
Portico - '101' feat. Joe Newman (Official Video)
Portico - '101' feat. Joe Newman
Portico - 'Atacama' ft. Joe Newman
Portico - 'Bright Luck' (ft. Jono McCleery)
Portico - 'Living Fields'
Portico Quartet - Ruins
Portico - 'Memory Of Newness' feat. Jamie Woon
Portico Quartet: Prickly Pear
Portico - Living Fields (Last.fm Lightship95 Series)
Portico Quartet - Paper Scissors Stone
Portico Quartet - Knee-Deep in the North See
Portico - 'Where You Are' feat. Jono McCleery
Portico - 'Dissolution'
Portico Quartet - Life Mask (Isla 2009)
Plot
Richard Mayhew leads an ordinary life in London when one day a girl named Door falls, injured, across his path. The next thing he knows, his life is gone and he's pulled into the fantastical world of London Below. Pursued by the murderous Messrs. Croup and Vandemar, Door and Richard with the help of Hunter and the Marquis de Carabas, attempt to find the Angel Islington, who knows the secret behind the murder of Door's family, and possibly a way for Richard to go home.
Keywords: angel, assassination, cult-tv, homelessness, london-england, london-underground, magic, tv-mini-series
The Major BBC2 Series
Descend Into The Shadows Of London Below
[Answering the phone]::Mr. Croup: Croup and Vandemar, the Old Firm, obstacles obliterated, nuisances eradicated, bothersome limbs removed and tutelary dentistry undertaken.
Mr. Croup: If you cut us, do we not bleed?::Mr. Vandemaar: [pondering] No.
Mr. Croup: You're completely off your head.::Mr. Vandemaar: Say the word, Mister Croup, and it'll be off his shoulders before you can say Jack Ketch.
Mr. Croup: Were I you, I would no longer worry about the young lady. Her days are numbered, and the number in question isn't even in double digits.
The Marquis De Carabas: I thought it was just a legend, like the alligators in the sewers of New York.::Old Bailey: What, the big white ones? Oh, they're down there. I had a friend who lost a head to one of them. He's all right, he had another one.
Old Bailey: What's it like? Being dead?::The Marquis De Carabas: Live long enough and you'll find out.
Door: The Marquis de Carabas is a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.
Richard Oliver Mayhew: What kind of meat is it?::'Floating Market' Food Vendor: Crow.::Richard Oliver Mayhew: I'll take three vegetable curries then.
Mr. Croup: What do you want?::The Marquis De Carabas: What does anybody want?::Mr. Vandemaar: Dead things... extra teeth...
Richard Oliver Mayhew: [Prelude] Hello, I'm Richard Mayhew and I'm in Securities.
Portico - '101' feat. Joe Newman (Official Video)
Portico - '101' feat. Joe Newman
Portico - 'Atacama' ft. Joe Newman
Portico - 'Bright Luck' (ft. Jono McCleery)
Portico - 'Living Fields'
Portico Quartet - Ruins
Portico - 'Memory Of Newness' feat. Jamie Woon
Portico Quartet: Prickly Pear
Portico - Living Fields (Last.fm Lightship95 Series)
Portico Quartet - Paper Scissors Stone
Portico Quartet - Knee-Deep in the North See
Portico - 'Where You Are' feat. Jono McCleery
Portico - 'Dissolution'
Portico Quartet - Life Mask (Isla 2009)
PORTICO QUARTET Live @ ALBA JAZZ may 2012, Alba Iulia/Romania
Portico Quartet - Line (Take 5 at Abbey Road)
Portico Quartet - Pompidou Pt.2
Portico - '101' feat. Joe Newman (Clark Remix)
Portico - 'Colour Fading' feat. Jono McCleery
Portico - Bright Luck (Last.fm Lightship95 Series)
Using the Portico II Master Buss Processor for Mastering with Jerry Tubb of Terra Nova Mastering
Portico Quartet - Steepless (Kaytranada Remix)
Guayaquil Portico de oro - Hnos Dau Ochoa
I can be the first in your soul
Pulling our a tune, never show
Let everybody know what you did
You know what you can take
Silence is a gun
When your eyes only see what you feel
Bring it back, the faults to your soul
And go easy, feels too hard at times
But you know what you can take
Silence is a gun
Fear is alive for you to run with
Fear is alive for me to cope with
There's a sign to be too weak and
There's a stranger in your heart
There's a stranger in your eyes
So there's a silent beating
There's a ghost for everyone, I know
Fear is alive for you to run with
Fear is alive for me to cope with
There's a sign to be too weak and
There's a stranger in your heart
When you go, when you go
You have it all, inside you're tough
When you go, when you go
You have it all, inside you're tough
There's a stranger
There's a stranger in your eyes
Fear is alive for you to run with
Fear is alive for me to cope with
There's a sign to be too weak and
There's a stranger in your eyes