How a 16th century rhino inspired Portugal's famous pavement art - BBC REEL

Beneath the feet of everyone who visits the city of Lisbon, Portugal, lie hidden gems - floor mosaics made with limestone.
Legend has it that in the 1500s, a rhino sent from India, and the first ever seen in Europe, jumpstarted the Portugal pavement art tradition.
True or not, the fact is that this art form may be close to disappearing.
Video by Next Stop Stories
Narrator: Jemilla Olufeko
Executive Producer: Griesham Taan
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[@langbeach]

Just got back from Lisbon where I spent hours starting down at the pavement designs and picking up loose limestone chunks like they were gemstones… love how the surface gets smooth from decades of people shuffling across it

[@TagusMan]

Portugal 🇵🇹 - the most epic little country on the planet.

[@FartSquirel]

being transformed in the most epic multiculti shithole as we speak.

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

Viriato,ferdinand Magellan, Pedro nunes

[@anttikuusmetso]

Absolutamente de acordo!

[@joanofarcxxi]

Poor Ganda. They should have let him stay in Portugal where he was treated like a king. But I guess he lives on as a part of the Tower Of Belem. 💖 Calceteiros, don't let this beautiful art die.

[@Thedarkmamba]

Great little documentary. A wonderful reel.

[@maxasaurus3008]

Some of those are jaw-droppers!

[@zapfanzapfan]

Very pretty streets!

[@MrJovision]

Fantastic, how unknown was the world for the Europeans in the XVth and XVIth century. I will never understood those persons that criticize the Discoveries Age, like the world just a few killometers further the tightened limits of any small village, would be unknow and interested forever!!! Like ignorance was a good thing to preserve...

[@Smendricx82]

Any chance you can provide the direct link to the virtual catalogue of the physial moulds?

[@anttikuusmetso]

Many thanks for a nice documental! Love Portugal!

[@joelcardoso3617]

I heard: - This work is an art that requires a lot of practise, patience and attention to minuteness in a back breaking position under the sun. - This profession is underpaid and considered low-skilled - why to young people do not feel attracted to this and we're struggling to find new peolpe under the danger this art may die? 🤐😑🙃

[@luistheserrano4785]

It's sad, but true, there are young people in Portugal without a job, on the dole receiving unemployment benefits and prefer being in that situation rather than having an honest and respectable job like this

[@paulacon28]

Que calçadas tão lindas! São assim em Salvador da Bahia🇧🇷 Gostaria muito conhecer o Portugal🇵🇹

[@i-dx2ow]

The mosaic pavements are art, why it is so cheap to make, why not to pay the masters a better rate? Asphalt would be so much cheaper and ugliest, but probable less dangerous for the stilettos...

[@rajdeeproy9741]

Wow, a very good art Indeed, Love from India, From where the "Genda" came😁

[@txexmxiii2125]

💗

[@suevialania]

💚❤️🇵🇹👍🏻

[@SolaceEasy]

Poor title. Disproven in the video.

[@mgithaiga1]

I would like the Portuguese pavement for my driveway.

[@joaomaxado65]

Low salaries for the Calceteiros only in Portugal !!! A lot (believe me, a lot) left the country and earn much more in Spain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Italy, Belgium, Canada, US, etc.

[@suevialania]

Where''s the Portuguese pavement in those countries???

[@satishpatel5260]

Plus in AFRICA 🌍, INDIA 🇮🇳. place GOA,

[@joaomaxado65]

@@suevialania Mostly in rich private places (homes, hotels, private companies and a few touristic places). More outside Portugal, Brasil and former colonies is very expensive.

[@pauvermelho]

É impressão minha ou o Isaltino (CMO) detesta calçada portuguesa? Sempre que fazem obras nas ruas o gajo tira a calçada

[@pauvermelho]

Gostava de aprender para pôr no meu quintal 😀 Quanto tempo é que dura o curso?

[@4623620]

👎 Because I'm hard of hearing I need the english auto translate, but it shows [Music], so these BBC documentaries are useless to me ☹❗

[@SidK26]

Ganda? Wow, "Ganda-mirugam" is Rhinoceros is Tamil (One of the Indian Languages)!! (Basically, mirugam means animal or monster, so you could make out the meaning)

[@SidK26]

And so is in Hindi - "Gainda". Makes more sense now.

[@satishpatel5260]

PORTUGAL, VACO DA GAMA,discover AFRICA 🌍 came in MOZAMBIQUE 🇲🇿, ANGOLA 🇦🇴, AFRICA 🌍,,, 👉🇿🇲ZIKHOMO

[@satishpatel5260]

👉🇿🇲Twhalumbe, Zikhomo 🌍👌

[@saragomes6242]

Não descobriu África, descobriu sim o caminho marítimo para a Índia

[@fernandoruicastrovalente3086]

And Índia, Calicut, Goa and Daman/Diu.

[@Genny-Zee]

Is Dua Lipa the narrator of this video? No I’m way off

[@guff9567]

Those pavements are highly dangerous: old people, people in wheelchairs and people with babies prefer to walk in the road

[@jeanlundi2141]

Highly dangerous is a gross exageration. And they aren't the only pavements commonly used in cities around the world that can be dangerous sometimes.

[@guff9567]

@@jeanlundi2141 Let's just stick to Portugal please.

[@kvlocks3138]

Allow me to say that no one in Portugal ever finds it dangerous unless they're wearing high heels in the rain. You kinda learn how to walk on it, since every street in the country has it.

[@guff9567]

@@kvlocks3138 Idiot. Why don't you just GO THERE ?