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.

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 ...

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.

A tile mural inside the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora Leisa Tyler/LightRocket via Getty Images Not far from the Alfama neighborhood of Lisbon is this monastery and church dedicated to St ...

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.

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 ...