Some SA guy mentioned France and a courtyard. I was thinking of it as an operahouse, but maybe a garden?
Florence :P
Yeah, it was this really cool courtyard, with a staircase like that. The surrounding building went up about five or six stories, and I believe had been converted into an art museum. I haven't been there in years, but as I recall that kind of layout with a cool stone courtyard is pretty common for that city.
Incidentally the building in question
was a lot like a castle... so... go for it!