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Another interesting feature of many of the palaces here is this latticework around some of the windows (usually off upper landings and hallways). The windows provide a very small space from which to look out but the latticework serves to create hundreds of smaller windows of a kind as well. These vantage stations were taken by ladies who were not allowed to show their faces in public. So in order to be able to watch life around them, since they could rarely go out, they would watch from these lookouts, largely unobserved.