Mudéjar

I've never really been a paving cat, but since I moved to Spain I've started to find it quite interesting. The Moors introduced pebble mosaic paving to Spain and it's found all over the place. There are some really intricate designs. I like to hop on the white ones, they get very hot in the summer and burn my pads. Paco the tom says I look like a real prat hopping about, but what does he know. He's a "ginger" so he looks like a prat all the time.

Factoid: Mudéjar is the name given to the Moors who remained in Spain after the Christian reconquest but were not converted to Christianity, and to the style of Spanish architecture and decoration, strongly influenced by Moorish taste and workmanship, that they developed. In erecting Romanesque, Gothic, and Renaissance buildings, elements of Islamic art were used, achieving sometimes striking results. The dominant geometrical character, distinctly Islamic, emerged conspicuously in the accessory crafts—tilework, brickwork, wood carving, plaster carving, and ornamental metals. Even after the Muslims themselves were no longer employed, many of their contributions remained as an integral part of Spanish building. A particularly fine Mudéjar example is the Casa de Pilatos, of the early 16th cent., at Seville.