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    Azulejo (Portuguese: [ɐzuˈleʒu, ɐzuˈlɐjʒu] Spanish: [aθuˈlexo]; from the Arabic al-zillīj, الزليج) is a form of Portuguese and Spanish painted tin-glazed...
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    The Museu Nacional do Azulejo (Portuguese for National Museum of the Azulejo), occasionally known in English as the National Tile Museum, is an art museum...
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    The Casa de los Azulejos ("House of Tiles") or Palacio de los Condes del Valle de Orizaba (Palace of the Counts of Valley of Orizaba) is an 18th-century...
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    Chapel of Santa Catarina (category Buildings and structures with azulejos in Portugal)
    the city of Porto, in Portugal. It is particularly noted for the blue azulejo tiles on its exterior walls. The chapel had its origins in an old wooden...
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    The Casa de Azulejo (English: "House of Azulejos") is a 19th-century historic home in the Saúde neighborhood in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It was built in...
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    Casa de Pilatos (category Buildings and structures with azulejos in Andalusia)
    different azulejo (Spanish glazed tile) designs made in the 1530s by the brothers Diego and Juan Pulido, one of the largest early-modern azulejo collections...
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    São Bento railway station (category Buildings and structures with azulejos in Portugal)
    architect José Marques da Silva. The large panels of around twenty thousand azulejo tiles (551 square meters) were designed and painted by Jorge Colaço. The...
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    1715, but no reference to a period of construction or completion. The azulejo tile was applied to the church in 1730 by Policarpo de Oliveira Bernardes...
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    of this parish that hides treasures such as the National Museum of the Azulejo or the Palacio do Grilo. Belém is famous as the place from which many of...
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    Tomás Taveira is also noteworthy, particularly for stadium design. The azulejo is a mainstream, typical element among Portugal's traditional building...
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    and diversified work that included painting, drawing and illustration, azulejo tiles, graphic and furniture design, tapestry and scenography. Particularly...
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    November 1940. The facade, main entrance and fish market contain traditional Azulejo (panels of tiles) depicting regional themes, executed by João Rodrigues...
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    for walls. Azulejos were also used in Latin American architecture. Quadra (architecture) of St. John the Baptist covered with azulejos in carpet style...
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    Fuente de los Azulejos is an unusual rock formation on the island of Gran Canaria. The name literally means "fountain of tiles", because of the colour...
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    Convent in Lisbon, Portugal contained a previously unknown, large panoramic azulejo depicting Queen Ketavan's martyrdom in Persia. The scenes were based on...
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    Ponce, and many others who had come with them. There is a commemorative azulejo mural of the battle in São Bento railway station. In Arcos de Valdevez...
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    Azulejo tile image of Brites de Almeida killing Castilian soldiers...
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  • Azulejos : Semanário Ilustrado de Ciências, Letras e Artes (Portuguese for "Titles: Weekly Illustrations of Sciences, Arts and Letters") was a review published...
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    decorative (and functional) wrought iron gratings and the tiles known as azulejos. Landscaping—both for common private homes and homes on a more lavish scale—also...
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    A azulejo plaque on the entrance to Ericeria...
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    Palace of Mafra, Mafra, Portugal, by João Frederico Ludovice, 1717–1755 Azulejo in the cloisters of the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, Portugal...
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    Pope Saint Anastasius I Bishop of Rome Azulejo of Anastasius I at Santa Catalina College, Trigueros, by Manuel Rodríguez and Pérez de Tudela (1923) Church...
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    macramè. Very used in Genoa is the cobblestone called Risseu and a kind of azulejo called laggioni. Genoa has been likened by many to a Mediterranean New...
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    1942) was a Portuguese painter specially known for his works as tile (azulejo) painter. Jorge Colaço was born in Tangier, Morocco, the son of a Portuguese...
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    Resistance and Liberty National Museum of Archaeology National Museum of the Azulejo National Coach Museum National Museum of Ancient Art National Museum of...
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    and church in Lisbon, Portugal, which houses the National Museum of the Azulejo. It is classified as a National Monument. Located in Xabregas (formerly...
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    features a retable by the Italian artist Nicolau Nasoni and a façade of 1932 azulejo tilework. The church is named in honour of the Visigoth, Ildephonsus of...
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    based on plans by architect José Marques da Silva. The large panels of azulejo tile were designed by Jorge Colaço; the murals represent moments in the...
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    das Dores (Our Lady of Sorrows), from the 18th century, in addition to azulejo tile that fills the footers of the body of the church. Church of Nossa...
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    Resistance and Liberty National Museum of Archaeology National Museum of the Azulejo National Coach Museum National Museum of Ancient Art National Museum of...
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