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What is a cortile?

What is a cortile? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture) An internal courtyard, surrounded by walls but open to the sky
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The house is linked to its lawn by two sets of curved steps, designed by a pattern that could have been taken from Bramante's Cortile del Belvedere in Rome.
The precious fragments were taken first to his villa, but soon given to the Roman people and transferred to the cortile of the Palazzo dei Conservatori.
The idea came from the Marchese's involvement in commissioning Arnaldo Pomodoro's monumental Sphere Within Sphere for the Cortile della Pigna in the Vatican.
The storied restaurant, Il Cortile, is owned and run by the Esposito family, which also owns the properties, on the corner of Mulberry and Hester streets.
The significance of this unusually shaped cortile, heretofore not fully understood, is the topic of this article.
In the center of the tents, where ground has been set aside in the snow for a cortile, those not on duty huddle round with our letters from Italy.

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