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Facade and entrance of the Corral del Carbón The Corral del Carbón , originally al-Funduq al-Jadida , is a 14th-century historic building in the Spanish city of Granada ( Andalusia ). It is the only funduq (commercial warehouse or inn) or alhóndiga preserved from the Nasrid period in the Iberian Peninsula . [ 1 ]
The Palace of Running Waters (Spanish: Palacio de Aguas Corrientes) is an architecturally significant water pumping station in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the former headquarters of state-owned company Obras Sanitarias de la Nación. It is currently administered by Agua y Saneamientos Argentinos (AySA).
The oldest surviving corral, albeit significantly altered, is the Corral de comedias de Alcalá de Henares. This corral, formerly a courtyard theatre, has been roofed and used as a teatro romántico and a cinema, leading to major changes in the building's architecture. [3] The last known such courtyard theatre to be built in Spain, Corral de ...
Batería y Reducto de Chorocamayo; Castillo de San Sebastián de la Cruz Fort (Corral Fort) San Sebastián de la Cruz Fort in Corral at the southern side of Corral Bay was the headquarters of the coastal defences. It was built in 1645 by order of the viceroy Pedro Álvarez de Toledo y Leiva. Castillo de San Pedro de Alcántara (Isla Mancera Fort)
Corral Bay is a bay in the mouth of the Valdivia River, southern Chile. Its main towns are Corral and Niebla . The mouth of the bay is between Juan Latorre point and Morro Gonzalo , with a width of 5.5 km [ citation needed ] .
However, it is no longer an open-air theater, like the Corral de comedias de Almagro, having been given a roof in a rebuilding in 1769. Following its use as a teatro romántico in the 19th century, and a cinema in the early 20th century, which led to major changes in the building's architecture, [ 2 ] the building has been restored.
The classification of corals has been discussed for millennia, owing to having similarities to both plants and animals. Aristotle's pupil Theophrastus described the red coral, korallion, in his book on stones, implying it was a mineral, but he described it as a deep-sea plant in his Enquiries on Plants, where he also mentions large stony plants that reveal bright flowers when under water in ...
A boma is a livestock enclosure, community enclosure, stockade, corral, small fort or a district government office, commonly used in many parts of the African Great Lakes region, as well as Central and Southern Africa. It is particularly associated with community decision making.