Pteron

In Classical architecture, a pteron (Ancient Greek: πτερον, 'wing') is an external colonnade around a building, especially an Ancient Greek temple. The pteroma or peristasis is the passage between the columns and the wall in a temple, the peristyle that in an inward-facing courtyard or garden.

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