Architecture of Italy
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An arcade is a passageway or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns. In cities, buildings along their street-establishments called penny arcades. The games came to be known as arcade games, and since the explosion of electronic games in the 1970s these establishments became known as video arcades.
History
An arcade often surrounds part or all of a town square in Mediterranean climate cultures, such as in Italian architecture, Spanish architecture, Moorish architecture, Arabic architecture, Colonial architecture; and subsequent Mission Revival style architecture, Spanish Colonial Revival style architecture, and many other original and revival styles around the world.
In a Gothic architecture the arcade is: Interior; the lowest part of the wall of the nave, supporting the triforium and the clerestory in a cathedral Exterior; part of the courtyard cloisters surround.
Modern arcade walkways often include retailers.
Notable arcades
- Burlington Arcade, London
- Cleveland Arcade, Cleveland, Ohio
- Dayton Arcade, Dayton, Ohio
- Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert in Brussels
- Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan
- GUM, Moscow
- Çiçek Pasajı, Istanbul
- Galleria Umberto I, Naples
- Great Mosque of Córdoba
- List of shopping arcades in Cardiff, Cardiff
- Mission San Fernando Rey de España - Architecture of the California missions, U.S..
- Mosque of Uqba
- Melbourne Block Arcade, Australia
- Nashville Arcade, Nashville, Tennessee
- Old Bank Arcade, Wellington, New Zealand
- Paddock Arcade, Watertown, New York
- Real Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de Rueda, Aragon Autonomous Community, Spain
- Royal Arcade, Melbourne, Australia
- Silver Arcade Silver Arcade, Leicester, UK
- The Strand Arcade Sydney N.S.W., Australia
- The Passage St. Petersburg
- Victoria Quarter, Leeds
- Westminster Arcade, Providence, Rhode Island
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