She craned her neck to look up at the vaulted roof, which was helmeted by two blue cupolas.

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Atop cupolas, winged angels, hair in tresses, hark and blow trumpets.

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The latest installment loses the ancient cupolas and marble temples of Renaissance Italy for the cramped, squat cities of wood and brick and the boundless frontier of 18th century America.

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Throw in classical colonnades, cupolas and a Buddha statue from the 1958 film Inn of the Sixth Happiness, all cradled by the majestic Welsh mountains, and it is a rather bizarre place to spend an afternoon.

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