He could see it now, directly ahead, and beyond it, on the far side of a massive marble plaza ... "Is that the Gate?"

After parking the cart on the wide lawn directly behind St. Peter's Basilica, the guard escorted Langdon and Vittoria up a stone escarpment to a marble plaza off the back of the basilica.

You are all probably familiar with the Court's façade - the marble plaza with steps leading up to the main portico, supported by sixteen massive Corinthian columns, flanked on either side by two large, seated marble figures.

The white marble plaza was a solid mass of people, all yammering excitedly at each other and straining to get closer to the Great Sept of Baelor.

He loved amateur theatricals, led his law clerks in sing-alongs and would bet with his fellow justices over anything, including the depth of snow on the marble plaza outside the court.

Beyond the fountain, across a pink marble plaza, were the stone stairs with the Palace at the top.

Joffrey and Margaery stood surrounded by Kingsguard atop the steps that fronted on the broad marble plaza.

As initially envisioned by Warnecke, the site would be accessed by a circular granite walkway which led to an elliptical marble plaza.

Soaring Heights Downtown Charlotte - actually called Uptown - is eminently walkable, with sidewalk benches and marble plazas scattered among the cluster of postmodern skyscrapers.

Word of the court's decision rippled across the court's white marble plaza to the broad sidewalk, where hundreds of noisy demonstrators on both sides of the abortion issue had gathered since early morning, chanting slogans and carrying placards.