1) The interior spaces were divided by peristyles bearing classical statuary, while other statues stood in the round-arched window spaces.

2) From the atria one passes into the first peristyle which has an Ionic colonnade and a central fountain.

3) Peristyle of the House of Vetti, Pompeii, Italy.

4) The Roman-style Outer Peristyle is the largest garden at the Villa, and is adorned with hedge-lined pathways and circular stone benches.

5) The rooms are all grouped around one or more peristyles.

6) They have a narrow frontage to the street and are planned around an atrium and peristyle.

7) These houses are laid out in terraces on the hillside with porticoes and colonnaded peristyles.

8) The interior courtyard is not like an atrium or peristyle.

9) A corridor from an exedra leads into the second, larger peristyle which had a gallery over the colonnade.