1.   The houses face onto a central courtyard.

2.   We flew in from Stockholm and from the air immediately noticed a well-planned city with apartment blocks built in semi-circles with central courtyards and gardens.

3.   At night many have to sleep in the cold damp corridors, which are barred at the end where they open on to a central outdoor courtyard.

4.   Bay, myrtle and rosemary are the main traditional greenery in the formal central courtyard.

5.   A circular central courtyard around a fountain forms a scenic entranceway.

6.   A central courtyard has a massive fountain, filled with giant boulders imported from the heart of the gold-rush country near Sacramento.

7.   A pair of enormous wooden doors opens into the covered breezeway, which then leads to the central courtyard.

8.   A small pool and fragrant orange trees occupy the grassy central courtyard surrounded by simple, but comfortable, cabins with phone and cable TV.

9.   All around the enormous central courtyard rise arched tiers of monastic cells, the facades boldly decorated with black and white stripes and red-checked designs.

10.   Dali is buried in the central courtyard.