What is "palazzos"

Usage examples of "palazzos".

She remembered the roaring mob of the Palio rifling this amphitheatre of Renaissance palazzos, the rainbow parade of the contrade, the wild horse race: all stopped, all gone!

The forgotten town planners of the Middle Ages had designed a memorably beautiful open space, hemmed in by a semicircular sweep of reddish palazzos and the imposing, almost straight facade of the fourteenth-century town hall.

The red palazzos sloped downward to the town hall, where a straight street sliced off the broad curve.

Watching the palazzos rise on either side, Nic felt the happiness only a surfeit of beauty could inspire.

Its title was 'The Marriage of Ester and King Xerxes' but the pagan treatment and the local background of the Venetian lagoon and the Grand Canal palazzos, coupled with the Quincento decor and costume, made it seem more like 'The Marriage of Neptune and Minerva,' no doubt the moral Strangman intended to point.

The pictures on the wall were of imaginary, ruined palazzos in the Italian countryside.