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Typical patio of Sevillan houses.

Patio de los Leones (Courtyard of the Lions), The Alhambra of Granada.

Patio of Córdoba.

The typical Andalusian patio is originated from the Orient, from Persia or Arabia, where it is customary since the dawn of the times decorate the houses and palaces with large areas full of life, places full of gardens adn plants dominated by fragrant flowers, fountains, canals, wells, ponds and some other decorative figure, (prohibited by Islam but placed since the 15th and 16th century), frescoes with mythological scenes and marble medallions (on walls), forming beautiful shapes each more convoluted but without breaking the harmony and with the intention to represent the Garden of the Paradise as it imagined the Muslim architects.

At first its use was intended to houses cattle, camels and horses and its construction consisted in different sticks of palm branches with a roof of straw and branches, all very weak, and later become a place of cult to the Prophet Muhammad, leaving open air, and with the conversion of religions (in Spain) was used to make prayers, readings and meditation. Patio de los Leones, Alhambra in Granada.

There are countless examples throughout the entire region of Andalusia, but where it can find the largest number ever assembled in one place is the magnificent Alhambra of Granada, without detracting from those in the Alcazar of Seville and many other buildings and houses in the city, or the caliphate Córdoba which is where it developed its main features of patio in Andalusia from 10th century without producing many changes to the present day from that date. Patio de Córdoba.

With the evolution was added bars and wood or iron windows, from which it could see the beauty of the place and in many cases without being observed (during the Muslim period.)

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