Editing Pergola (section)

==Description==
[[File:Pergola canaria.JPG|thumb|left|upright|Pergola covered in [[bougainvillea]]]]
[[File:Vitis_vinifera_ornamental.jpg|thumb|150px|upright|Pergola covered in [[Vitis vinifera 'Ganzin Glory'|ornamental grapevine]]]]
[[File:Koilani1.jpg|thumb|150px|Alley with grapevine-covered pergola, [[Koilani]], Cyprus]]

===Features and types===
Pergolas may link pavilions or extend from a building's door to an open garden feature such as an isolated terrace or pool. Freestanding pergolas, those not attached to a home or other structure, provide a sitting area that allows for breeze and light sun, but offer protection from the harsh glare of direct sunlight.

Pergolas also give climbing plants a structure on which to grow.<ref>
[http://www.ronhazelton.com/article/outdoors/patios/UDExOQ/How_to_Build_a_Pergola "How To Build A Pergola"] on ''Ron Hazelton's HouseCalls''</ref>

In 1498, [[Leonardo da Vinci]] decorated the [[Sala delle Asse]] of the [[Castello Sforzesco]] in Milan to give the illusion of the great square and vaulted reception hall being within a pergola that was made up of the intertwined branches of sixteen huge mulberry trees.<ref>Ruggiero, Rocky, ''[https://rockyruggiero.com/episode-142-leonardo-da-vincis-sala-delle-asse/ Episode 142 – Leonardo da Vinci’s Sala delle Asse]'', Making Art and History Come to Life, Rebuilding the Renaissance, October 6, 2021</ref> The novel project was commissioned by the Duke of Milan, [[Ludovico Sforza]].

===Green tunnels===
[[File:1949 - Salzburg - Mirabellgarten.JPG|thumb|150px|A green tunnel trained on modern materials, Mirabellgarten, [[Salzburg]]]]
Pergolas are more permanent architectural features than the [[green tunnel]]s of [[Late Middle Ages|late medieval]] and early [[Renaissance]] gardens that often were formed of springy [[Withy|withies]]—easily replaced [[Shoot (botany)|shoot]]s of [[willow]] or [[hazel]]—bound together at the heads to form a series of [[arch]]es, then loosely woven with long slats on which climbers were grown, to make a passage that was both cool, shaded, and moderately dry in a shower.

At the [[Medici villas|Medici villa]], [[Villa La Petraia|La Petraia]], inner and outer curving segments of such green walks, the forerunners of pergolas, give structure to the pattern that can be viewed from the long terrace above it.