Garden Art in Spain that has Lasted over 1000 Years! | A Glimpse of Paradise

I lived in Spain from 703 - 785

Me too 😊

I would have visited it each year.

The Andalucía culture IS not india andqq persia. Is al Andalus culture, IS not Arabian, IS andalusí.

@@jaimegarcia9408 okey

Not Arabic, both you and the BBC have it wrong.
The BBC usually does not take nuance into account.
If it looks oriental to them, everything is Arabic.
If it is from Spain, it is all flamenco and bulls.
If it sounds Spanish, all is Mexican, etc, etc...
Beautiful documentary anyway, please leave modern politics out of this. You are from Malaga, you surely know better.
Spain and Andalucía have their own very ancient and unique cultures.
Please do not make them Arabic, Persian, or Martian.
All said it is nothing personal, just cultural.
You sound passionate and honest in your commentary.
Be happy and have a nice day. 🙂

@@CondeAlberto I understand, thank you for the observation. All ancient and beautiful cultures 💗

Andalusia was a hub for both Muslim and Christian people in the past. Such a beautiful location.

he is a very thorough lover too!!

@@marvin19966 how do you guys know tell us more

they already thrown the gardener out of the country

Their "christians" bloodline ancestors can't stand this...
Especially after the 10 centuries war between Muslims and Christians...
And the 20 centuries war between Jews and Romans...
Oh and...both Muslims and Christians were Romans and "Christians" at first...until the 7th century...

I took a screen shot as inspiration for my quilting! Just lovely!

you cant see the diffrences and culture without comparing tho... Things are beautiful with their diffrences

You should look up "Mughal Architecture". Imo it's the peak architecture.

islam was inspired by rome.

@@rovhalt6650 yes

​@@rovhalt6650 Which part of it that is inspired by rome? And can you give me other example? I don't know much about Roman Garden.

@@rovhalt6650 Sure

Ironía nivel Dios.

@@eliasgarciacanseco3822 Sin embargo, la moda es hablar bien y continuamente de los africanos y nunca de los romanos. Si se habla de ellos es para decir que eran esclavistas, salvajes y retrógrados. Te das cuen? Todo por un puñado de votos. No se dan cuenta de que cuando Europa esté llena de 1slam, formarán sus propios partidos políticos y a la izquierda no la votará ni su abuela...

They're not Spanish.
They're Moorish.

@@lorenam8028 They are 100% Spanish, Moorish does not exist as a noun, it is only an adjective.

@@lorenam8028those gardens have been in Spain for a millennium, I’m sure they are as Spanish as they get

​@@sjsjsjsj-z2bdon't care about defention. Many of the plants and the garden style Is Arab and brought by Arabs

@@ThedeadaccountAL But they are not in Algeria, are they?

shouldn't a lot of colors provide a spring-like appearance to these long-dark-wintery areas or Northern Europe? I am not convinced .... imagine yellows and reds and oranges and greens and blues playing together like in a spring-time meadow.

​@_Noopy_ Traditionally, northerners used as many colors as available. The colourlesss style is rather new, from the functionalism or something.

Actually the north of Spain is also foggy, rainy and humid. More Ireland than Italy or Greece.
People use to think all of Spain has a dry, mediterranean weather, but it is more diverse than most think. It is like a little Europe.

@@_Noopy_it depends, I guess on what kind of building. Modern office building are not built with the most expensive material and also have a large footprint - so colours can sometimes be tacky. On private housing, people use colours in Norway, at least mainly on wooden buildings - I think white is prevalent- but there are also ma y colours. I have a concrete house in a soft terracotta colour which I am very happy with.

@@Davidman3976indeed

Yes

Not Islamic, the original design is Persian Paradise Garden design which was readily recorded in that empire 1500 years before Islam.

They aren't Islamic. They are Persian.

@@WordsPhotos They were being inspired by the Islamic gardens not the original Persian gardens … and Islam for Muslims started with Adam (AS)
It’s like saying people like speaking English … and someone interjects that’ they’re actually enjoying speaking a offshoot of German

@@honesty_provides_tranquility As long as one does not read the entire collection of references I offered above they can not understand what the concept of a Pairi Daeza or Paradise Garden means. There is absolutely no registered design in the entire universe as Ialamic garden. When we say Persian Garden we are not referring to a nationality, we are talking about a very specific and unique design that I give anyone interested to go and find out for themselves. The expanse of Persian Garden design covers the old gardens of Aghanistan, India, Iran, Turkey, Spain and other areas throughout the history. Meanhwhile, you can see on her next episode that even the countries that are center of Islam have absolutely no such thing as Islamic Garden design. Their entire gardens fall under modern garden design. 3000 years of Pairi Daeza. The Paradise Garden, the Persian Garden design. Cheers!

Nothing arab except langage, it's moorish (North African amazigh) heritage

​@jasinjelabouti3015 ¿Qué? Not sure what this has to do with the comment.

@@jasinjelabouti3015 they were Arabs you can tell from their last names

@@X001-1 by this logical every muslim in this world is arab
push ur thinking instead of basing ur knowledge on such simplistic reasoning

The andalusí culture does not exist. Andalusia is mostly baroque. There is almost nothing (apart fromt some old rocks here and there) of Moorish origin there (I would say thank God).

@@robert111kwhat? What? Oh my goodness jajaja 🤣🤣 the andalusí culture have 800 years. IS the culture to al- andalus era, a the more important era in Europe, al-berca, alhacena,alhaja, alfajor, albóndigas, etc are andalusí word. The big "averrores" IS andalusí intelectual. The phylosofy, the astrónomy, the arquitecture andalusí IS the more important in the history. You have standing history.

@@robert111k lol nothing he says… meanwhile there are 4000 spanish words have their origin or are derived from Arabic, not to mention the names of hundreds of towns/cities/landmarks all across Spain, the mere exitence of mudejar architechture is counter to your point.
Lol nothing he says, meanwhile thousands of tourists visit al-Hambra everyehere, what does alhambra mean? Is spanish for something?
The Cordoba mosque perceded Baroque architecture by 5-6 centuries…
But i like your spirit none the less…

@@OMOMOMOMOM190 And like a similar number from german origins, we are german now? ah

8% to 10% ​of Spanish is Arabic words or words from Arabic origin.
Al-Andalus influenced so much of the Iberian Peninsula. From cusine to langauge to architecture to music and more. @@BicornioSPA

This is about Andalusia not Persia

@@MsAsim123456 Well the style of garden is

This is Andalusia not Iran or Persia

@@swasg3129 style is blend of many cultures, just like the persian garden you are talking about. it is not uniquely persian you know? it was affected by many cultures too. the term Islamic is far more appropriate for them

@berdigylychrejepbayev7503 Nope, this style predates islam by a long mile. Sorry

Andalusí garden have authentic style

Spanish gardens in this video. I am sure Persian gardens are lovely too.

Borrowed from the Persians, yes with improvements, and a Arabic twist, some tissues for you to help wipe your salty tears.

@@moosa9850
ok moosa.
Have fun with your delusional, cheap, imperialistic politics.
You are entitled to cope with your own fantasy, I guess.
Be happy, bye now ;-)

@@moosa9850 No Arabic in there. This is north African architecture imported from Morocco. Show me one garden or castle in the Arabian peninsula that looks like this ?

With your comment, great possibility you are a Muslim at heart and please listen and feel your heart that hears and see things of the foresight for you.

Its clearly the documentary is talking about this particular Islamic influenced type of garden

I'm sure that Jesus wouldn't have minded that people would talk about gardens.

Islam has just taken much from others', Theology, Architecture, Music and Art...

Not advanced or well planned gardens.

It's not a competition 😂

And not only the coastal Spain, there are also beautiful mountains (see National Park of Ordesa, probably one of the best natural wonders of the entire world).

@lolaramirezrodriguez3486 During my USAF days I flew many times to Portugal and Spain. Iberia has it all.

Especially Roman. A lot of what we think as Muslim is in reality a continuation and redevelopment of Roman design.

@@gideonros2705 You are right

@@gideonros2705 Well, in part For example the Romans never irrigated the countryside , only the cities. By irrigating the countryside the Muslims the conditions for a completely new type of agriculture. In terms of design Islamic civilisation expressed profound concepts about human life in gardens and also in architecture. The disappearing ceilings in the Alhambra for example represents the impermanence of the physical world and its eternal merging with the infinite. The Romans had no such sacred concepts., they were base and spiritually empty. Cruel and ruthless rapists and mass murderers who turned grotesque violence into entertainment. For them architecture represented only power and gardens only symbols of wealth.

@@rafthejaf8789 But arabic people had only the desert's wisdom when muslim religion got started. They became the way they are nowdays known as a culture when they got contact with romans (bizantines), persians (who they were in contact to indian people, as well) and egyptian (they were the masters of tretaiment of water, thanks to their river). All those cultures knew as long in time how to work with water, although all of them in a different (but complementary) manner. So, muslim people represented a antique wisdom (not necessarily originated by them) converted in western countries in a beatiful jewel. (From my home, I see Alhambra, because Granade is my mother town and I feel very gratitude because such a magnificent jewel).

@@marmar-xn3fo Thank you for reply. We should remember that the Arabs did have the cultural and religious influence of Jews and Christians which is what gave birth to Islam, and they just alone in the desert. I think the story of how Islam absorbed the knowledge and customs of older cultures is the story of humanity itself. The only real problem with accepting this the denial by Christian West of the fact that its own medieval beginnings were made possible through knowledge and learning it gained from Islamic civilisation. The reasons for this are mainly because of its comparative weakness both economically and culturally that led its elites to fear being replaced and discarded by its own populations in favour of Islam which in reality was a very possibility because the elites of Christendom had very little to offer except war . Un saludo.

Buganvilia isn't Brazilian it's Mediterranean and actually more north African but the Portuguese brought it to Brazil centuries ago 🎉

I'm glad you mentioned this because it is exactly correct. Most of the so-called Arab gardening and building traditions have their roots in Roman North Africa, Roman Spain, and Roman traditions of irrigation and vaulted stone. This video makes it seem as if Arabian Islamic magicians just came out of nowhere and 'brought' these traditions to Spain, which is absolutely incorrect. I'd also add that most of the gardening in this video is frankly very modern if not Victorian (in the private homes), and would be unrecognizable from the originals. This video was clearly written by a British/Northern European/ or American writer who was at pains to try to make this all seem "Arab", a poor reflection of our politicized climate. This video would be akin to making a video about Canterbury cathedral and claiming it's all 'Danish' or 'Saxon' because some of them were in the area 1200 years ago lol.

⁠​⁠@@erawanpencilyou’re being a hypocrite and doing the same thing you accuse the presenter of doing…. “Because some of them were in the area” = 8 centuries of political , cultural, medicinal and scientifically contribution… lol “some were in that area” what a joker you are, the bias is very strong in you.
Anyone agreeing with your point will have to also concede that you are on the opposite extreme that make it seems like they were just passing by and that andalusian culture today has 0 influence from the moors….

@@erawanpencilyeah then why dont we see it pre-islamic times anywhere else in spain. It’s literally whitewashing history lmfao. Facts dont care about your feelings

😂😂😂😂 bitch they had built these in worse places

Sans aucun doute, les Romains sont aussi une civilisation moderne, comparée à l'Égypte et à l'Irak, et peut-être y en a-t-il d'autres qui sont plus anciennes.

Yes, Dorne was actually filmed in Spain.

Yo no sólo he visto eso repetido hasta la saciedad sobre todo en videos Estadounidenses sino que la mayoría o muchos negros de allí tienen la paranoia de que los moros en España eran todos negros y que vinieron por millones es algo increíble y de una cosa digna de estudio dentro de los bulos en RUclips bay infinidad de estos vídeos 🤣

Hhhjjk

And Roman influence is actually equal if not deeper... We still live under Washington Irving romantic vision.

800 years stretched out from less than 500 years at the most

1492-711 =781