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Casa Mata and other estateagentspeak..!
So anyone know what a casa mata is? Is it peculiar to Malaga? Adosado? End terrace as well as semi detached or more specific?
Atico? Different to duplex? Help! |
Re: Casa Mata and other estateagentspeak..!
Originally Posted by fionamw
(Post 8829533)
So anyone know what a casa mata is? Is it peculiar to Malaga? Adosado? End terrace as well as semi detached or more specific?
Atico? Different to duplex? Help! I have to admit to having not heard the term around here. |
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Errrrr .... sounds like a bit of a dead loss to me :)
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The ones described so always tend to be the tiny rows of old terrace houses and fishermens cottages. There are some rows called casa matas in Fuengirola. Would be interested to know where the name came from.
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Re: Casa Mata and other estateagentspeak..!
Originally Posted by jackytoo
(Post 8829584)
The ones described so always tend to be the tiny rows of old terrace houses and fishermens cottages. There are some rows called casa matas in Fuengirola. Would be interested to know where the name came from.
So how about adosado, etc? |
Re: Casa Mata and other estateagentspeak..!
Originally Posted by fionamw
(Post 8829923)
Ok. Intriguing potential etymology, as everyone's pointed out!
So how about adosado, etc? http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...hlight=adosado :D |
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I heard that some of the fishermans cottages where given to the wives of fishermen lost at sea. The ones in Fuengirola used to be populated by old ladies dressed in black, underlining the fact.
maybe that is the meaning! lph |
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Hmmm you could be on to something, sounds credible.:)
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Originally Posted by cricketman
(Post 8829950)
Still none the wiser ref all the different expressions so any help gratefully received. smileys won't work - typically. So a big cheesy grin! |
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I suspect (after 10 years in Andalucia that casamata is an Andaluz word stemming from the same place we get our old word "casemate" which was part of the defensive structure of a castle.
What a casamata is is an old village house, usually joined to others, and it might be that they were originally meant (back in the days of the Moors) to be easily defended. Thick walls, small windows and doors and a handy roof-terrace for chucking things down at the invader.:) "Adosados" literally means two-by-two I think meaning a semi-detached. What I have never understood is the difference between a Piso and an Apartmento - they seem to be interchangeable.:confused: |
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Originally Posted by jollyjack
(Post 8830429)
I suspect (after 10 years in Andalucia that casamata is an Andaluz word stemming from the same place we get our old word "casemate" which was part of the defensive structure of a castle.
What a casamata is is an old village house, usually joined to others, and it might be that they were originally meant (back in the days of the Moors) to be easily defended. Thick walls, small windows and doors and a handy roof-terrace for chucking things down at the invader.:) "Adosados" literally means two-by-two I think meaning a semi-detached. What I have never understood is the difference between a Piso and an Apartmento - they seem to be interchangeable.:confused: |
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Wel atico usually means Penthouse apartment in my experience.
But we have always lived in old townhouses. We are living in Spanish Townhouse number 7 at the moment. We have been in Torrox, Velez Malaga, Mijas Costa and now La Font Den Carros, in Valencia province. And we are thinking of moving again........:eek: |
Re: Casa Mata and other estateagentspeak..!
Originally Posted by fionamw
(Post 8830434)
... and further to that, atico meaning loft? or not necessarily? duplex meaning a two-storey top floor(s) apartment? or not necessarily?
A loft is a style of flat that is usually open plan with exposed brick, think NY lofts A duplex is a flat with two floors/levels |
Re: Casa Mata and other estateagentspeak..!
Originally Posted by fionamw
(Post 8829533)
So anyone know what a casa mata is? Is it peculiar to Malaga?!
If it's got anything to do with estate agents might be a euphemism for dosshouse which is a place to sleep. Jim |
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Jollyjack's description of a casa mata would certainly fit my house which was so described when we bought it! It is a village house in the original medieval part of town, within the old city walls, 3 storeys high and built around a patio, with a roof terrace. It certainly has a bit of a castle like feel at times as we could do the old repelling invaders bit with the boiling oil - don't tempt me! But we are not attached to anything on either side. I'm not so sure about any connection with fishermen as we are 4km from the sea.
The term is used often here in the Axarquia and I have never been able to find it in a dictionary and often wondered what it actually meant. |
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