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Architectural photo of a historic stone room with lightwells, golden gates with Arabic calligraphy, and a marble fish tank.

Architectural photo of a historic stone room with lightwells, golden gates with Arabic calligraphy, and a marble fish tank.

book cover. Architectural photo of a small, square historic Crimean room inside a Genoese castle, a cafe in Crimea, crafted by an Italian master with an Oriental style. Luminous sunlight from open lightwells in the ceiling streams down, causing the atmosphere to be pristine and empty. The room is sold and empty, with bare, plain, flat light stone floor and walls, absolutely no rugs, no carpets, no furniture, and no wall decorations. In one of the walls stand low decorative forged golden gates, exactly 1.5 meters high, intricately engraved with a sacred protective Arabic lettering calligraphically woven directly into the metal curves of the gate leaves. The gates are slightly ajar, as if waiting to be closed. Right behind the gates, almost flush with them, is a large structural open archway, behind which the entrance leads strictly to the right and to the left into hidden inner chambers, completely closed from the visitor's eyes. On the opposite wall from the gates, strictly pressed tightly flush against both corner walls in the deep right corner, is a small, perfectly square, deep marble water basin made of solid white marble. The water inside the basin shimmers and sparkles under the sunlight from above with a beautiful, soft neon-blue glow. Inside the deep basin, active goldfish and rare sacred royal velvet-blue khan-breed fish with iridescent shimmering scales are swimming deep. On the left wall, exactly in the direct horizontal middle of that wall, there is a clear, See more