The entrance opened with a columned portico on the sea side. The room was accessed from a courtyard with a columned portico. It consists of a flat roofed square sanctum with a portico and four pillars. The principal entrance at the center of the portico is surmounted by a lunette fanlight. A pediment is sometimes the top element of a portico. Each hyphen features a recessed two-story Ionic portico on the west facade. The main entrance is an impressive neo-classical portico with Doric columns. Palladio sometimes used a loggia as an alternative to the portico. The south face has a projecting Ionic tetrastyle portico and Venetian windows. Entrance is through a massive Doric portico, inspired by the temples at Paestum. A two-pillared portico, visible in the 19th-century photographs, has since perished. It had six rough Doric columns on the portico. At the front there is a portico of pillars. The transepts each have a semi-circular entrance portico. The original main entrance is through the portico on the east front.