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• Nelson's already much talked-about installation, which opens to the public this Saturday, takes the visitor through the front door of the elegant, colonnaded 19th-century former tearoom that forms Britain's official pavilion and plunges them into a disorienting, dusty, crepuscular world full of labyrinthine passages, false walls and shoulder-hunchingly low ceilings. UK Venice Biennale entry 'avoids Britishness'
• Visit Bastide d'Armagnac (labastide-darmagnac.net) with its enchanting square colonnaded central place; Notre-Dame des Cyclistes (notredamedescyclistes.net), a tiny 11th-century chapel where Tour de France competitors come to pray; the exquisite hamlet of Larressingle (and taste its equally exquisite armagnac – tinyurl.com/6z7yo22); the food market of Eauze and buy foie gras, croustade and armagnac direct from artisan producers. (tourisme-gers.com). Budget wine trips in France
• I was sitting at a stone desk in a colonnaded courtyard on a speck of land in the Caribbean. SuperCooperators
• Penang's main town, George Town has colonnaded streets of Chinese and Indian shophouses that demand thorough exploration by foot or trishaw.
• Roman cities thrived on unplanned diversity - colonnaded buildings around the forum at the heart of each town were used as shops, meeting rooms and places of work and recreation.
• In front of the pastel-coloured, colonnaded buildings of Parliament Square, Queen Victoria's statue casts a beady eye over modern Nassau.
• Over the fields of the university campus, and a sudden low redbrick wall, a precisely colonnaded rose garden.
• You can still follow the colonnaded main street of their city, and trace in the jumbled stones the outline of marketplaces, swimming pools and palaces.
• The Parliament building is a huge and austere '20s stripped Classical block a la Tengbom in pink Finnish granite by J. S. Siren, massively colonnaded and raised on a daunting stepped plinth.
• The white, colonnaded mansion, built for British rulers of the Punjab whose pasty portraits hang inside, feels like a refuge and a throwback. The Troubled Heart of Pakistan