GREEN Craftivist

If you have a beautiful garden hidden inside your home, will you open it for the public to see?   Many homes in Spain especially the old ones are designed to have a patio or courtyard garden. A courtyard or patio is an open space of Roman architecture influence. It is usually located in the center of the house to allow light and air into the other rooms.  Being the "core" of the house, it serves as an area for family entertainment and relaxation where you can enjoy nature and soak up in the sun. In the olden times, a patio or courtyard was normally surrounded by high walls to ensure privacy.  It could only be accessed from inside the main house.  When the Moslems came, they modified this design by creating an entrance from the street leading to the inner courtyard. During the period of tolerance when the Moslems, Jews and Christians co-existed as a community, the patios and courtyards were built with an atmosphere of openness signa...

Have you been to a church that looks like a forest inside?  As soon as you enter , you will stand in awe of the place , turn speechless and frozen in amazement. You feel like being in the middle of a magical forest  sans  the sound of tweeting birds, the silence broken only by light footsteps and the quiet sigh of astonished visitors. The columns are not the usual tall, cylindrical  posts you normally see in buildings or church structures. They are built like the trunk of a tree that changes its shape and branches out as it grows taller. There are skylights between the columns that allow light to come in. The ceilings are adorned with sculptures of leaves, fruits and flowers which can also be seen in many parts of the church.  When sunlight passes through the skylights and the stained glass on the walls,  you see glowing light of different hues and colors shining on you from different directions like a spotlight, gently changing in brightness at differ...