Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Mar. 16, 2014: Jardin Borda, Cuernavaca

Very reminiscent of the Moorish-style gardens of Spain & Morocco, always the water.

Not surprising in a way...

One of our gleanings on our recent trip to Andalucia is that for the first two centuries of Spanish rule in the Americas, most of the Spanish immigrants came from the south, where Seville had a monopoly on trade with the "New World."

That certainly accounts for a number of aspects of Latin American Spanish (s rather than Castilian th, etc.) and probably for the persistence of architectural attitudes and details that survived the fall of Moorish power for a long time...even to today!