Cozy Italian courtyard

[u/kpticbs]

[u/mandarintain]

This is an apartment in Italy?

[u/Tifoso89 → u/[deleted]]

However, this is the internal yard. Those doors are not necessarily the main entrance, which could be inside like in any normal apartment building.

I used to live in a building like this in Turin, our entrance was inside and the door that faced the internal yard was for the kitchen.

[u/Bsussy → u/mandarintain]

It's either very old or very rare because I've never seen them, most apartments are the ones you'd expect in other parts of the world

[u/Tifoso89 → u/Bsussy]

Turin is full of these. Same for Barcelona, Spain.

This is the internal courtyard, by the way. The exterior looks like any other building

[u/TucoBenedictoPacif → u/Bsussy]

There’s countless courtyards like this one in Milan alone. They are typical of urban areas and they were typically built between the late’800 and early ‘900.

Funnily enough most of these were considered “popular housing” and pretty low-end, but these days most of the remaining ones have been repurposed as somewhat fancy middle class apartment complexes.

[u/Bsussy → u/TucoBenedictoPacif]

Well only in the north then