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Rua Manuel Assunção Mestre, nº 22 7780-199 Castro Verde
They were born with the Arabs and from the Arabs to the Portuguese they have kept their name (Azulejo).
But it was the Portuguese who re-invented them in terms of patterns, colours and geometries allowing for endless combinations with a thousand matrixes and optical illusion effects
In the tours we now propose, you will find over 200 different facade tiles’ typologies, ranging from late 18th Century to mid-20th Century.
A residential and cosmopolitan neighbourhood with a very special atmosphere. Despite its ancient initial core, it went under a great development in the early 20th Century. Its tiles reflect that change over time.
Bourgeois mansions and chalets, alleys and modest houses of seafarers and fishmongers. The people and the aristocracy represented in tiles.
Two different eras featuring different protagonists. A more remote past and a more recent past. The stories of the places and protagonists also told by the facades’ tiles.
The visual artists, architects and interior decorators were not indifferent to the tile’s tradition. Since the mid 20th Century until nowadays the examples of this modern and contemporary approach have been multiplied.
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Rua Manuel Assunção Mestre, nº 22 7780-199 Castro Verde
Rua Marcelino Mesquita, Nº 11 Loja 4 Escritório 1. 2795-134 Linda-a-Velha