Andalusian Patio

Andalusian patios are stone patios typically acting as central open spaces in a home decorated with flowers and plants. They are an architectural evolution of the Roman atrium. It has long been customary to decorate houses and palaces with large open spaces and gardens dominated by fragrant flowers, fountains, canals, wells, ponds, other decorative figures, (placed since the 15th and 16th century), frescoes with mythological scenes, and marble medallions (on walls), forming shapes each more convoluted but without breaking the harmony and with the intention to represent the Garden of the Paradise as imagined by the Classical and Muslim architects.