Portugal's sensational ceramic tiles

Correspondent Martha Teichner travels throughout Portugal to tell the story of the country's rich tradition of covering buildings with colorful ceramic tiles, called Azulejos.

[@huntrrams]

Love tile design! One of the most unique countries in Europe for this kind of Art

[@loisgetz]

The Tiles are fabulous...don't miss this.

[@MaryHGoudie]

The #Lisbon tile museum is one of my favorite places to start a custom guided tour of the city. After pointing out the buildings on the pre earthquake panel I can then show my tour guests the ones that have survived. The convent church also is replete with energy & I might get out my pendulum to graphically show this. Let me take you there www.your-lisbon-guide.com the next time you visit Lisbon.

[@klaytonpeterson1596]

Gold over Blue...Perfect

[@filipedacruzalves]

Discover the beautiful National Tile Museum & the church of Madre de Deus, the Vila Palace in Sintra (with its impressive 10.000 Glazed Tiles or "Azulejos" (which means polished Stone) from the 15th and 16th Centuries with a Licensed Tourist Guide. For Bookings or Enquiries visit www.filipealves.com

[@vicentecalandrini6173]

In Brazil Amazon especially in Belem u can find lots of azulejos. It’s beautiful the way she said azulejos, she said with a Brazilian chic Portuguese soo fancyy

[@indianartcraftschool758]

Beautiful work🌹👍👌

[@elisavieira737]

Beautiful thanks

[@MichaelS6699]

Beautiful tiles in Portugal, there is Irish man Sean O Riain who is also keeping this art form alive, check him out at static.publico.pt/20Anos/20Historias/Portalegre

[@2L84goodbye]

This video is way too short. You could have gone on for another hour, easily...

[@kawiiewingedwolfgalaxy4606]

2020

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Sir im kuwait werking tils

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Sir im kuwait ties werking

[@indoordesigning9189]

My virk t

[@MrJovision]

Its obvious that the word "azulejos" came from the word "azul" or blue, because they were originally blue! Arabes has nothing to do with it. Afterall the Arabs are newcomers, they just arrived in the VII Century AD, and than we, in Minho already were here since the Neanderthal, but my family dont remember much before 3.000 years ago...

[@lucretiaweil75]

The Portuguese and Spanish word AZUL (blue) comes from the persian لاژورد: lazhward, lápis-lazúli) The word azulejo is derived from the Arabic الزليج (al-zillīj), zellij meaning "small polished stone" because the original idea was to imitate the Byzantine and Roman mosaics. The first azulejos were imported by King Manuel I after a visit to Seville in 1503. They can be seen in several rooms, and especially the Arab Room of the Sintra National Palace (including the famous cuenca tiles with the armillary sphere, symbol of king Manuel I). In the second half of the 17th century, the blue-and-white tiles began being produced in Delft in the Netherlands, under the influence of Chinese pottery and porcelain. The workshops of Jan van Oort and Willem van der Kloet in Amsterdam created large tile panels with historical scenes for their rich Portuguese clients, such as for the Palace of the Marqueses da Fronteira in Benfica, The late 17th and early 18th centuries became the 'Golden Age of the Azulejo', the so-called Cycle of the Masters (Ciclo dos Mestres). Mass production in Portugal was started not just because of a greater internal demand, but also because of large orders came in from the Portuguese colony of Brazil. Large one-off orders were replaced by the less expensive use of repetitive tile patterns. Churches, monasteries, palaces and even houses were covered inside and outside with azulejos, many with exuberant Baroque elements

[@portugallusitanocelta7120]

Azuleijos not azulejos

[@elizabethhunstock8341]

Desculpe em português é "Azulejos", a pronúncia pode soar como Azuleijos, mas na escrita não existe a "i".