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 ...

By the 16th century, Portugal’s own tile industry was flourishing and other styles of azulejos developed, including maiólica, where artists paint on a layer of white enamel on wet clay.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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).

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Dezeen Showroom: Spanish brand Azulejos Benadresa has released Medici, a range of tiles informed by the characteristic striations of Calacatta marble. The Medici collection is named after the ...