The night he was chosen pope, March 13, Francis emerged from the loggia of St.

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Among them are the Piazza della Signorina, Palazzo Spini Feroni in Piazza Santa Trinite and Loggia dei Tornaquinci.

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The home is built around a central atrium, and includes a large master suite and a second-story loggia overlooking the water.

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After what seemed like an unending wait of more than an hour, they cheered again when the doors to the loggia opened.

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"Brothers and sisters, good evening, " Francis said to wild cheers in his first public remarks as pontiff from the loggia of St.

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They transferred the original living-room ceiling cypress stenciled with Moorish stars to cover a loggia and decorated an exterior wall with a set of weathered brass gates.

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At the court's periphery, the flower-topped columns and golden glass lanterns of Louis Comfort Tiffany's garden loggia at Laurelton Hall evoke a lost world of decorative magnificence and sumptuous style.

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"Thank you for having given us the luminous example of the simple and humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord, " Bertone said, quoting Benedict's own words when he first appeared on the loggia overlooking St.

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Well, here was a pageant, and on my first night in Florence: the 16th-century Palazzo Budini Gattai, with its ordered gardens, rib-vaulted loggia and towering mirrors that reflected and rebathed the self-consciously preening partygoers in flattering golden light.

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