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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]
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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.
These early Andalusian societies played a vital role in the region’s transition from prehistory to protohistory. With the Roman conquest, Andalusia became fully integrated into the Roman world as the prosperous province of Baetica, which contributed emperors like Trajan and Hadrian to the Roman Empire. During this time, Andalusia was a key ...
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.
A cortijo near Píñar, Granada province, Spain.. A cortijo is a type of traditional rural dwelling (akin to the German Bauernhof, also known as a farmhouse in English) [1] in the southern half of Spain, including all of Andalusia and parts of Extremadura and Castile-La Mancha.
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