A masia in Catalan (or Spanish: masía and Aragonese: pardina) is a type of rural construction common to the east of Spain: Catalonia, Valencian Community, Aragon, Languedoc and Provence (in the south of France). The estate in which the masia is located is called a mas. They are often large but isolated structures, nearly always associated with a family farming or livestock operation. Occasionally, masies include an annexed private chapel. Some early works of the Spanish painter Joan Miró depict his family's own masia as well as Catalan peasants.