The Grid!

I know what y'all are thinking when I say something about the Grid! Guess?? Its Tron! No, just kidding, but the Grid is real, but not in some computer generated world ruled by a dictator, this is a real place in the world, once ruled by a dictator :) Ill talk a little but about the dictatorship thingy later, but right now we are talking about the Grid. The Grid is a system of expanding the old cities of spain beyond their medieval borders and walls. An example is in Merida, were the whole medieval community was kept in tact because of the lessoning of the amount of commerce in that area. Anyways, the point is that to expand, cities adopted the Grid method for their newest pars of their cities. Their would be many blocks in the Grid, and each block would have a series of circles arranged in a sort of hollow square, which inside was supposed to have a central garden in it, but realistically many used this for parking :) In that certain square there would be many houses built in, each about 3 or 4 stories high with windows looking both towards the street, and also towards the interior gardens! Here are some of the many pictures that I have from the Grid network in Barcelona and all over spain! Enjoy :)
The top one is the regular interior garden of a christian style apartment complex on the Grid
the bottom is a carmen, or mansio, of a wealthy jewish family in spain before the expulsion of the jews and the start of the inquisition in the 1400's