portego means A characteristic compositional element of the Venetian civil buildings built during the years of the Republic of Venice, similar to a reception hall but having peculiar features. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.
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- A characteristic compositional element of the Venetian civil buildings built during the years of the Republic of Venice, similar to a reception hall but having peculiar features.“The arrangement of the middle windows is a transferring, as it were, of the mediæval portegos into the artistic conditions of the Renaissance.”