Here and there - among the logistic details - a bright passage appears, about a flower-filled courtyard or a dramatic sunset.

We'd checked into the family-run Hotel Hacienda, a two-story colonial-style building set around a swimming pool and flower-filled courtyard.

The Gardner Museum is much admired for the intimate atmosphere in which its works of art are displayed and for its flower-filled courtyard.

The hotel looked shabby from the outside, but inside it was beautiful, opening out into a flower-filled courtyard with a swimming pool and an excellent restaurant.

We are having lunch at my hotel, and I comment on the glass doors opening to the flower-filled courtyard.

The 26 rooms - all of them suites and most with fireplaces - surround a flower-filled courtyard.

In a flower-filled courtyard, they paused at a stylized black quartz statue of a woman kneeling.

A flower-filled courtyard graces this hotel in the center of town.

These are little pedestrian walkways that lead to even more stores and restaurants in pretty flower-filled courtyards.

Another dining room has a clubby feel fit for the hotel's aristocratic owner, and a lovely, spacious flower-filled courtyard bordered by bedrooms on three sides.