These are azulejos, Portugal’s hand-painted tiles that have been decorating ... the art of glazed ceramic tiles flourished.

On April 4, the Adamson-Eric Museum in Tallinn's Old Town opened an exhibition of Portuguese ceramic tiles, or azulejos, in Estonia for the first time. The exhibition "Azulejos: The Pearls of Portugal ...

Elaborately painted tiles ... advanced ceramic techniques from the Muslim world. Their hallmark was the art of zellij, an Islamic mosaic style made from hand-chiseled tiles arranged in intricate ...