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Spanish to English translations [PRO] Tourism & Travel
Spanish term or phrase:calle (in architecture)
From a description of a Cathedral in Spain:
De su espléndida portada baroca, dividida por pilastras en cinco CALLES de tres pisos y rematada por una balaustrada con pináculos, sobresale la portada en mármoles blancos..."
Passages, files, aisles...?
Explanation: This is usually used for "retablos," but if you have a very elaborate portada the setup is the same. The "pisos" (sometimes called "cuerpos") are the horizontal sections or layers, and the "calles" are the vertical sections or panels.
Here is a text about a portada:
Apoya la portada vienesa en un alto zócalo de piedra con frentes, cajeados y se resuelve como un retablo de dos cuerpos con varias ***calles*** de diferente amplitud, destacándose en la zona central la gran hornacina que comunica movilidad y barroquismo a la traza. El cuerpo bajo, que parece una transposición del arco de triunfo romano, se articula por un orden gigante de columnas corintias de fuste estriado sobre basas decoradas, que dividen la hornacina en tres espacios distintos, resultando así un total de ***cinco calles desiguales***. Las cuatro extremas presentan cajas rectangulares y la central, que corresponde a la puerta de ingreso, forma un dintel rematado por un arco de medio punto; tanto las jambas y el dintel de la puerta como el intradós del arco se recubren de una copiosa ornamentación figurada semejante a la que recorre el friso en que culmina este primer cuerpo. Sobre él apoya el segundo, cuya ***calle*** central, muy amplia. ocupa todo el desarrollo de la hornacina y culmina en un medio punto sobre pilastras cajeadas, cubriéndose por medio de una bóveda de cuarto de esfera que semeja una gran concha con la charnela hacia arriba, decorada con casetones decrecientes. Las ***calles laterales*** forman un simple encuadre de la central y constan de un basamento dividido en dos recuadros con relieves donde apoyan parejas de pilastras corintias con plintos y fustes cajeados; en las interpilastras se superponen dos hornacinas aveneradas que albergan esculturas y culminan en dos grandes tondos, sirviendo de remate general a la composición un frontón recto.
If you look at the photo at the above link while you read the description in the paragraph below it, you will see how the different columns and pilasters that are mentioned divide the composition into different vertical sections (the "calles"). The term has nothing to do with aisles.
Actually, "calles" has come up before in this context (a retablo), in a previous Kudoz question. See discussion (and particularly my answer) at the link below:
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aisles
Explanation: Bourges, there is no transept; on the otherhand there are many examples in which
this part of the cathedral church is emphasized by having aisles on each side ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_architecture - 32k - 30 Dic 2004 - En caché - Páginas similares
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... might be two of them (as at Canterbury Cathedral and Salisbury Cathedral). The transept
itself might have an aisle (St-Denis diagram) or two aisles, or it ...
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... The Latin crossed Cathedral has a nave and two side aisles, divided by six thick
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