These are azulejos, Portugal’s hand-painted tiles that have been decorating buildings and telling stories for centuries. It’s ...

The gateway to the Algarve in the south of Portugal offers its own charms beyond the region's great beaches, from history and ...

THE Lotus Palace is a 230-year-old house in Kanadukathan village, which has been carefully restored and converted into a ...

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From the historic Mishkal Mosque to the literary charm of SM Street, Kozhikode is a vibrant tapestry of cultural heritage, maritime legacy, and culinary traditions ...

Photograph by Tom Fallon. Above: Maria found the Portuguese painted tiles at Kempton Market and interspersed them with zellige in shades of white: it’s an idea we’d like to try in our own homes.

The colours and style of the 1970s influenced this renovation of a compact Paris apartment, designed by New York-based The House Special Studio.

While the Igreja do Carmo features imagery made from blue- and white-painted tiles on one side, the Capela das Almas (also known as the Chapel of Souls or St. Catherine Chapel), has such tiles on ...

What's notable about this landmark is its 20,000-some painted blue ... of Portugal. Portuguese artist Jorge Colaco is the mastermind behind this azulejo piece; its tiles were mounted over the ...

The mansion was built with three boatloads of Doria stone imported from Genoa and lavishly adorned with nearly 36,000 glazed Spanish tiles bought ... One loggia has walls painted with copies ...

A team of researchers from ETH Zurich have developed an alternative to the mechanical dehumidifying of spaces in which large numbers of people typically gather. Recognising that the use of traditional ...

You’ll begin your Douro River cruise from Porto, due to its handy position at the mouth of the river as it empties into the ...