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Typical patio of Sevillan houses. Patio de los Leones (Courtyard of the Lions), The Alhambra of Granada. Patio of Córdoba. Andalusian patios are central open spaces in the courtyard houses of the south of Spain. The stone patios are an architectural evolution of the Roman atrium. [1] [better source needed]
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 ...
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the Palace of the Patio de Doña Blanca, dating to the 12th-century Islamic structure, originally a leisure pavilion; the bathhouse , they include an entrance area for undressing, leading to the cold and warm rooms, the latter being the largest in the complex. The final room is the hot room, whose heating system is still partially visible.
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.
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.
The Patio de la Acequia in the 19th century, before the installation of modern fountains. In the Nasrid period, the Generalife was an almunia (from Arabic al-munya, meaning "farm" [8]), a country villa that was used both as a private retreat by elites as well as a farming estate with agricultural functions.
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.