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These patio houses are communal, family or multifamily dwellings or sets of individual houses with the shared patio. As a characteristic cultural space boasts an abundant array of plants, and during the fiesta inhabitants can share food and wine, and freely welcome all visitors to admire their beauty and the skill involved in their creation.
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Andalusian patio; C. Court of the Myrtles; G. Generalife; H. Huerta de San Vicente; P. Paronella Park; S. Spanish garden This page was last edited on 12 January ...
Of these, one patio remains, and it is surrounded by a gallery with columns. [1] The Andalusian patio , like a similar one at Casa de Pilatos, dominates the exterior of the property. At the entrance to the palace, in the main archway, there is the shield of the Duchy of Alba in tiles, made by Triana of Seville in the 17th or 18th century.
Andalusia (UK: / ˌ æ n d ə ˈ l uː s i ə,-z i ə / AN-də-LOO-see-ə, -zee-ə, US: /-ʒ (i) ə,-ʃ (i) ə /-zh(ee-)ə, -sh(ee-)ə; [6] [7] [8] Spanish: Andalucía [andaluˈθi.a] ⓘ, locally also) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain, located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe.
Jardín del Generalife de Granada. A traditional Spanish garden is a style of garden or designed landscape developed in historic Spain. Especially in the United States, the term tends to be used for a garden design style with a formal arrangement that evokes, usually not very precisely, the sort of plan and planting developed in southern Spain, incorporating principles and elements from ...
Main gate. The construction of this palace, which is adorned with precious azulejo tiles and well-kept gardens, was begun in 1483 by Pedro Enríquez de Quiñones, Adelantado Mayor of Andalucía, and his wife Catalina de Rivera, founder of the Casa de Alcalá, and completed by Pedro's son Fadrique Enríquez de Rivera (first Marquis of Tarifa), whose pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1519 led to the ...
Patio is also a general term used for outdoor seating at restaurants, especially in Canadian English. While common in Europe even before 1900, eating outdoors at restaurants in North America was exotic until the 1940s. The Hotel St. Moritz in New York in the 1950s advertised itself as having the first true continental cafe with outdoor seating.