What does this mean?

[Bert45]

Cloister with prune in Santa Maria la Real monastery, Najera, La Rioja, Spain.​

There are several images under this heading here: https://www.alamy.com/cloister-with...ery-najera-la-rioja-spain-image425869403.html
I'm guessing that 'prune' has been translated from the Spanish, but what word in Spanish? The first image is of the cloister with a well (pozo) in the foreground. Can pozo mean prune?
Thanks.

 

[C clearly]

Well, it does say that captions are provided by the contributors. Maybe you could compare all the photos under that heading to see what the common features are. Are you thinking of buying the photo, or are you just looking for puzzles?

 

[Bert45]

C Clearly asked: Are you thinking of buying the photo, or are you just looking for puzzles?
I was just looking for pictures of the monastery of Santa María la Real.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I believe the prune is a mistranslation of palm tree.
The translator must have confused a palm tree with a plum tree; both words are four letters long, three of which are identical and in the same order.
The English plum tree is ciruelo in Spanish.
Ciruela is Spanish for the fruit, plum.
The English prune is ciruela pasa in Spanish.

BTW, I think your questions about the three Blancas at the monastery has been solved.

 

[Pelegrin]

I believe the prune is a mistranslation of palm tree.
The translator must have confused a palm tree with a plum tree.
The English plum tree is ciruelo in Spanish.
Ciruela is Spanish for the fruit, plum.
The English prune is ciruela pasa in Spanish.

In Spanish " pruno" is another word for "ciruelo" but is only used for the red one.

 

[Blue Tang]

Given that the caption is in English, it may be a truncated reference to the "pruned palm." (Which appears in need of another pruning.)

 

[Bert45]

I believe the prune is a mistranslation of palm tree.
The translator must have confused a palm tree with a plum tree; both words are four letters long, three of which are identical and in the same order.
The English plum tree is ciruelo in Spanish.
Ciruela is Spanish for the fruit, plum.
The English prune is ciruela pasa in Spanish.

BTW, I think your questions about the three Blancas at the monastery has been solved.

Thanks, Rick. I'm no arborist, horticulturalist, or botanist, but I think it is hard to confuse a plum tree with a palm tree. I think most people could recognise a "palm tree" – there must be dozens (2600 according to Google) of different types, but they all have palm-like leaves (I suppose). Whereas I wouldn't know a plum tree if one got up and bit me! Nevertheless, I appreciate your thinking. And thanks for the link to my other question.

 

[KeyserSoza]

In the photo, it is fairly that it is a palm tree. Is it not an obvious mistranslation?

 

[Kathar1na]

I wonder what would be gained if someone would present a factual answer or a plausible answer to the question. What value could this bring?

We can all see what is on the photo: walls, grass, a tree, a well, straight paths dividing the grassy area in four. Grab a decent dictionary and you will find equivalent words in Spanish if you have a need for it. Unless you have a specialist interest in the Spanish language, what would you gain if you knew how the caption is worded in Spanish or was meant to be worded in Spanish?

This Claustro de los Caballeros in Najéra is a masterpiece of architecture and sculpture of the 16th century. The style is late Gothic (Gótico Florido) / Plateresque.

On the photo (below) you see three of the four walls that form the cloister - i.e. a covered passageway that lies behind the four walls. It forms a square. It served as a space for the monks for praying and reading, and it provided a connection between the various parts of the monastery complex. The four walls enclose an open-air patio; this patio is called quadrum but it is often just included in the word cloister.

You can see the same elements in the cloisters of many medieval monasteries: trees or just one tree and a source of water such as the well. Tree and water have symbolic meaning (paradise; Genesis).

Isn't all this more interesting than a caption that doesn't tell us anything more, even if it were comprehensible?