voltes (see context)

English translation: arch, vault

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Catalan term or phrase:voltes (architecture)
English translation:arch, vault
Entered by: Maria Rosich Andreu

20:32 Dec 18, 2003
Catalan to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Architecture
Catalan term or phrase: voltes (see context)
once again, peus de foto sense fotos

El Gran Basar d’Istanbul, amb les galeries i *voltes* que configuren la seva característica arquitectura.

could i get away with "twists and turns"?

gràcies a tots i totes!
mbc
Spain
Local time: 04:15
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Explanation:
I believe the English name for this is just "arches", but maybe there is something better.

See this link: www.borinot.com/poble.htm

This is what we call "voltes" in Catalan, and I suspect next to "galeries" it has to mean this.

Good luck!

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Note added at 5 mins (2003-12-18 20:37:37 GMT)
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Another example, this one from my own city (where you can see the famous \"Voltes del circ\")

www.tarragona.creativeweb.es/planol/catala/fotos/porxos.htm
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Maria Rosich Andreu
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Local time: 04:15
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thanks just found it, sorry getting tired...
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Maria Rosich Andreu
4 +2Vaults
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see picture


Explanation:
I believe the English name for this is just "arches", but maybe there is something better.

See this link: www.borinot.com/poble.htm

This is what we call "voltes" in Catalan, and I suspect next to "galeries" it has to mean this.

Good luck!

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Note added at 5 mins (2003-12-18 20:37:37 GMT)
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Another example, this one from my own city (where you can see the famous \"Voltes del circ\")

www.tarragona.creativeweb.es/planol/catala/fotos/porxos.htm

Maria Rosich Andreu
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Local time: 04:15
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thanks just found it, sorry getting tired...

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lia Fail (X): yes, architectural term
8 mins
  -> thx :)

agree  nothing: It used to be arcada. "Shopping arcades" came from that, because originally there market stallls under them, but now if you say arcade people thinks more of a shopping centre or a place to play video games, so I would go for arches
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Vaults


Explanation:
Series or set of arches whose joints radiate from a central point or line (Oxford)... but being a market, you could be right too.
Cheers
P :-)

Paul Roige (X)
Spain
Local time: 04:15
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria Rosich Andreu
1 min

agree  Lia Fail (X): DE diccionari confirms 'arch, vault' , but vault seems more like a church, perhaps?
7 mins
  -> Need pic! :-)
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