Editing Gazebo (section)

==Types==
Gazebos overlap with pavilions, [[kiosk]]s,<ref>The word as applied to late medieval structures in Iran and Turkey corresponds to a gazebo. The modern English senses of a street stall or a telephone box do not. ''Collins English Dictionary'': "(in Turkey, Iran, etc., esp. formerly) a light open-sided pavilion."</ref> [[belvedere (structure)|belvedere]]s, [[folly|follies]], [[gloriette]]s, [[pergola]]s, and [[Rotunda (architecture)|rotunda]]s.

Such structures first appeared in [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] gardens approximately 5,000 years ago and appear in the literature of China, [[Persia]] and other classical civilizations.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}

Examples in England are the garden houses at [[Montacute House]] in [[Somerset]]. The gazebo at [[Elton on the Hill]] in [[Nottinghamshire]], thought to date from the late 18th or early 19th century, is a square, crenelated, brick and stone tower with an arched opening. It acted as a focus for an extensive system of red-brick walled gardens, which has survived with some more modern additions.<ref>[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-425567-gazebo-in-grounds-of-former-elton-manor- British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 25 October 2012.]</ref>

In today's England and North America, gazebos are typically built of wood and covered with standard roofing materials, such as [[Roof shingle|shingle]]s. Gazebos can be tent-style structures of poles covered by tensioned fabric. Gazebos may have screens to aid in the exclusion of flying insects.

Temporary gazebos are often set up in the campsites of [[music festival]]s in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, usually accompanying [[tent]]s around them.

A structure resembling a gazebo, found in villages in the [[Maldives]], is known as a ''holhuashi''.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}