These are azulejos, Portugal’s hand-painted tiles that have been decorating buildings and telling stories for centuries. It’s a look at Portugal’s rich history and culture, waiting to be ...

“Azulejos are not tiles,” he said emphatically, walking through the halls of the palace turned convent turned museum that now houses a collection of some 17,000 azulejos displayed ...

Portugal’s stunning ceramic tiles aren’t just for decoration. They’re pieces of history, and they’re also energy-efficient. Stunning and colorful ceramic tiles wow visitors to Lisbon, Portugal ...

National Tile Museum (Museu Nacional do Azulejo) is ranked #9 out of 19 things to do in Lisbon. See pictures and our review of National Tile Museum (Museu Nacional do Azulejo).

Interiors In the second part of the series on traditional handmade tiles, Nandita writes about azulejos, a typical form of Portuguese painted, tin-glazed, ceramic tile work.

Azulejos (pronounced ah-zoo-le-zhoo sh) are painted ceramic tiles found on the exteriors of buildings throughout Portugal. The tiles are thought to have originated in southern Iran and then made ...

At the Chapel of the Souls in Porto, for instance, the death of St. Francis and martyrdom of St. Catherine are immortalized through artistic tile renderings. In that sense, the azulejos, far from ...

Elaborately-painted Portuguese tiles, called azulejos, fell out of favour in the early 20th Century. But Lisbon today is embracing the art in its murals, museums and metro stations.

The tiles come in five sizes ranging from 60 by 60 centimetres to 260 by 120 centimetres to suit a variety of scales and applications. Azulejos Benadresa is part of Tile of Spain, an association ...

PROVIDENCE – Photographer, journalist and author Christine Chitnis spent the last three years traveling across Portugal, capturing images of the country’s architecture, unique azulejo tiles ...

Spot the tiles. Azulejos are the hand-painted ceramic tiles that dress so many of Porto’s buildings. They were introduced into Portugal by the Moors when they occupied much of the Iberian ...