The Art of Crafting Portuguese Tiles
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- There is tile everywhere you turn in Lisbon. It is part of the fabric of the city-an architectural and aesthetic feature covering houses, churches and train stations. Not surprisingly, the oldest working tile factory in Portugal is situated in the country’s famously tile-clad capital. Founded in 1741, the Sant’Anna factory has survived earthquakes, wars and fires. To this day, the company’s artisans still produce tile by hand using traditional techniques.
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The tiles were one of my most favorite things on my trip to Portugal summer 2019 😍 so beautiful . I bought many of tiles-inspired souvenirs . I loved everything about Portugal such a unique country with a unique identity .. & the people were super nice !
Thank you for your awesome comment i am português and seing this makes me proud of being PORTUGUÊS.👍🏼
cameo trigger 😍👍🏼 de nada ☺️
The white and blue.. true symbols of Vovo’s house
Turkmenistan: We have a marble city
Portugal: We have a tiled city
Love to Portugal!
Obrigado 😁
@Ksjs Jdjdb Nothing
Obrigado
I went to Portugal in 2018 with no expectations and came back simply amazed. Beautiful country, kind people, great food and culture to remember. If you have an opportunity, you might want to give Portugal a try :)
So happy and proud to see my country represented here :,)
Beautiful Lisboa. Awesome video. Now GBS needs to do one about the wonderful calçada you'll see all over Lisbon. They used to say look up *_and_* look down when visiting the city. Yup, I love Lisbon.
In Singapore and Malaysia you'll find something similar known as Peranakan Tiles. Search it up and you'll find remarkable resemblance to to tiles the Portuguese showed.
It's almost as if the portuguese brought them there
@@xyula8594 I know, though some claims to be the Dutch who brought them over
Tantas saudades do meu país ♥️🇵🇹
You should throw a drop shadow on your subtitles
Gotta hand to the Portuguese they make really good tiles.
Muito bonito mesmo! Parabéns irmãos lusitanos.
Such a handsome man making tiles 😊
The subway station near me has a mural commemorating the Portuguese exploration of the new world it's made up of painted tile. We also have a fairly sizeable Portuguese community in Toronto and you can tell which houses they live in as they often have tiles with the Virgin Mary or other religious figures near their front doors. The Portuguese definitely like their tiles!
Look like Moroccan zelij, Even some tiles use Islamic geometry. Really amazing!
@Magic Muffin Puffin well we have something in common haha
Khalid Gmoussa it’s originals Moroccan
@@soukainatips3204 it evolved from the moroccan tiles, but its not the same
They are Moroccan.... they need to do there reasearch.... disappointing
@@saleddch7173 the thumbnail is
One of many beauty aspects of Portugal its tile facades and individuality
Tugas once will unite and dominate the world with our azulejos
Já sabem qual é o mambo
eeeeepppaaaa
Portugal crl
Claro que sim temos sangue de D. Afonso Henriques e Viriato. Nós já fomos donos do mundo.
Tugas?
Amazing and jawdropping art
Visit Ovar City in Portugal, it's called "Cidade Museu do Azulejo". The facade of the houses with Azulejo are protected by law and it can never be demolished, most of them are centenary. If you are spending a few days in Oporto it's just a 40 minute train trip and 5 euros the ticket two ways. If you visit by car you can go to Válega, a really small village with one of the most beautiful churches in the world according to several travel and tourism magazines, it's just a 15 minute trip by car from Ovar. The Church is all covered in painted by hand tile, even if you are not religious you are going to be in aww! Another tip! Try Pão-de-Ló de Ovar, it's a very traditional "sweet" and you can only find the original one's in "São Luiz". ;)
Great video! I want to become a potter and make it for a living. This is so inspiring!
Beautiful
Portuguese really sounds like a Russian trying to speak Spanish
lyraface i was thinking the same thing😂at first i thought it was russian,but certain words sounds like spanish😂
The constant “sh” sounds don’t happen nearly as much in Brazil, it’s weird to hear it!
lyraface you’re idiot
Why everybody keeps saying that? :p Maybe I should learn Russian then just to confuse people even more! :D
bruh 😔
One of my very favorite GBS films.
Quem é que estar a ver o vídeo só porque é português
Love the design. I can see some in Malaysia, where I live.
Glad to see Islamic art and culture is still impacting this part of the world in 2020 and helping people having a better life since then. This shows how important art is and how strong this civilisation was :)
Okay listen right here, when i clicked the video i got an ad, and that was from Genesis, then the video started and then i heard: This video was inspired by Genesis, then i was like: :O
Porto is similar. Very worth a visit!
Cool
Bamos lá portugal é só mano
Nice
I would love to work there ~
Maquinas! :)
This channel should be called great small story.
I'd love to understand the process more.
I love their language it’s I hear a lot of Spanish but seems like french and Brazil
You do realize that Brazilians and Portuguese people both speak portuguese, right?
Bom vídeo
adorei muito
i have a house in lisbon we have this in our house
Should have mentionned that the tiles originate from Morccan and muslim craft. Early Portuguese tiles had islamic patterns
Originally Iran
I don't even have any kind of tile in my woods, strange
Bros i just had a genesis ad before this genesis sponsored video
True story
By a portuguese
What lol
That's moroccan "zelij". How do I know? It's been all over morocco for centuries.
Edit: especially the one in the thumbnail
Yes the tiles were, if i'm not mistaken, created in seville in the 8th century by the moors so they spreaded throughout the iberian peninsula and north africa.
yeah, we just added the portuguese soul to it but a lot of the designs are just moors-inspired. We do have rare tiles from the barrocan age, and sintra has some cool tiles too
The tile used in the thumbnail is clearly a Moroccan tile 🇲🇦🇲🇦
A Z U L E J O
If you're visiting Lisboa: Be careful buying tiles on the street... Many of them are stolen from buildings
Also: yass come thru Portuguese content!
Tinha que ser alguém até parece que burla não existe noutros paises não sei se sabes mas á lojas legalizadas que vendem este tipo de azulejos
@@germanshepperdlambo não falei em lojas... E não vejo mal em relembrar a quem vem visitar
wow
I want to do this job
love those...but they are now too expensive.
Who also got a genesis ad before the video?
At 1:00 it looks like the audio cut out. Is that just me?
Hand painting? Wow. Must be expensive. So pretty though
early but not first. have a good day people.
Anonymous Waffles same
Ooolala...
0:27 looks like a car or watch brand
I see alot of Islamic shapes and geometry
Yea Portugal once was under Islamic Rule
Because we have some influence in that shapes in south of PORTUGAL Algarve you gonna see a lot of this shapes, but we kick ass when our 1st king fougth the muslim away so. PORTUGAL PORTUGAL PORTUGAL PORTUGAL PORTUGAL PORTUGAL E O MELHOR DO MUNDO 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Yeah, you _'kick ass'_ and then act like their culture belongs to you.
@@n.w.flannel3463 hahaha that's burn... but almost every culture stole something from the other
@@svken797 I feel like too many people too often forget that.
They look like delftware from Netherlands.
Inspired by think you mean sponsored by
😌🇵🇹
The layout of Lisbon and all the white....its hard to read the subtitles as they all blend together.
I could somewhat understand as I speak Brazilian Portuguese (his accent is thick) but reading along was a little hard.
If you think his accent is thick, you wouldn't understand a thing if you came here!! 😂
What do you do for a living
Make tiles
Huh
Tiles
Really
yeah I also make city's
Damnnn this guy is fine 😍
Reminds me of Moroccan zelij 🇲🇦🤔
Portugal caralho!
Aah, tegeltjes wijsheid
Don't let tile anon see this
For people that don't understand why people are mentioning that this is islamic art, the reason is because it always gets ignored, if this video was about another culture inspired by European art or whatever kind of work, it will be mentioned. In this case it is too obvious to ignore but they still did it. Its quiet shameless if you ask me.
no one in portugal ever denies moorish influence since u did colonize us for centuries
This is Moroccan zelij (tiles)
No, it's azulejo, which came from the arab invasion centuries ago. That's why they're similar.
Rodrigo Luís just go to Wikipedia and type zellige and read the history behind it. There is no zellige in syria or iraq. But all moroccan monuments have them. Also the dynasties that governed southern spain or potugal for long were both berber moroccan dynasties with a capital that is marrakech
Mery El Bak get a grip. wikipedia is not the website you should trust when getting information. the similarities in the tiles and those you are talking about its because of the influence of the moroccan in our peninsula from centuries ago, its normal in history when cultures cross. relax
Ana Margaço I don’t mean any bad😆! I do appreciate both spanish and Portuguese culture (specially paella) and I know that both Morocco and Portugal influenced each others positively. It’s especially, and you will agree with me, that the thumbnail they put for the video was a typical Moroccan fez zellige design which made everybody including me confused. Imagine for exemple a thumbnail with a picture of typical paella and reading in the title « the art of american rice with sea fish »
Mery El Bak paella is spanish i do not know anything about that. portugal and spain are two different countries. i am portuguese and that thumbnail has a portuguese azulejo (wich the design has centuries of history that is influenced by other cultures). and thats it
PORTUGAL CARALHO!
It looks like Islamic art
You can see it inside the mosques
Is de resolt of almost 700 yeas of domain islâmic in Iberian Peninsula and others parts of south of Europe. 🕌
Looks like a rust base plan
Sir im kuwait werking tails
Those are originally Islamic north African. Do your reasearch big story 😑
They didn't say that portuguese created tiles! Muslims occupied Portugal for many centuries, it's only natural that they absorved some of their culture
They are talking about the history of a tile factory not about tiles in general, while is cool to know about their origin, is not cool to be an ass for no reason.
The video is about Fabrica Sant'Ana. It does look like Islamic for north africa. Plus, the Azulejo is a take of the Arabic tiles brought by the Moors to the Peninsula when they occupied it for 8 centuries. And you are an a$$hole.
I wish Portugal didn't have so much graffiti !
First
Grow up
Nope
You the first tile you have is MOROCCAN that’s an Islamic Arabic design, thank you
Bro chill
Iberian Peninsula was occupied by Moors(who were Muslims) for centuries. Obviously some influence has remained in fashion, language, architecture, food...
*F R A G R A N T*
The Chinese cook lol
allin finally a legend lies among us
Portugese sounds like a mixture of slavic and spanish
Milkchocobearbar - my exact same thought when I visited the country
Portuguese and Spanish are from the same language family together with French, Italian and Romanian (etc).
But Portuguese is actually closer to Galician than any other language.
First
president of the usa was george washington
Lol
Congratulations your actually first
This is what every Washroom looks like
Cheaper than stone? How? Or like, 3 centuries ago?
Totally! Now old tiles as super valuable and expensive.
Sou brasileiro e tive que ler a legenda em inglês porque o português de Portugal é mais difícil de entender que o inglês rs
Vc é burro.
@@ohdude6643 burro foi quem te pôs no mundo
1 mistake and your in r/mildlyinfuriating
He looks like Pete Buttigieg!!
Litterly the word for tile in Portugese is the morrocan word "zelij" talk about stealing our culture remember that Morocco ruled over Portugal and spain for 800 years.
so what u're saying is that u are proud colonizers?
Also we have a lot of our own original tile designs lol, stay mad
@@GODXGIRLY hell yeah we're pround of doing that to you guys and remember that we ended your kingdom when we defeated your weak king in the battle of almakhazin, stay mad.
@@doomdouck then suffer the consequences, its not stealing if u forced it upon us honey!
and u ended no kingdom since we took it back from the spanish and had kings up until 1910.
Arabic word perhaps? Azulejo comes from Azul (blue) in Portuguese, that derives from the Arabic lāzūrd.
The most antique Azulejos in Portugal are from the 16th Century and were imported from Spain , the Moors were expelled from Portugal in 1249 (13th Century).
You mean Moorish tiles.
those are called zelij , and this is indoislamic architecture belongings
These are called Azulejo derived from Azul (blue in Portugues) that derived from Arabic lāzūrd.
Portugal crl
Cough, Aveiro tiles are better than Lisbon tiles, Cough.
These are not Portuguese tiles. These are ARABIC Andalusian tiles!! You can find them throughout the Arab world, but you can't find them in europe except for the Iberian peninsula where the Arabs Reigned for 800 years.
Ikr
The tiles shown in the video are Portugese, the practice or painting tiles did originate in the Moorish kingdoms as zellige but the style of zellige compared to azulejo is very different
No Arab country does this art, but Morocco. Morocco is no arab country, they are berbers amazigh people.
18th
Except it is called moroccan zellige...
its literally one of the most iconic portuguese artwork wdym lol
@@d4tenshi the thumbnail is litteraly the perfect example of a moroccan zellige, you can find these type of tiles inside the University of Al-Qarawiyyin in Fes, Morocco. This university is the most ancient university in the world still in activity (since the year 859). The moroccan zellige made its way to Portugal through when the Arabs where in Andalucia. Peace.
edit : sorry for my bad english, hope you still understood what I am trying to say.
iDream it’s Moroccan the western didn’t know anything about Zelige until the Moroccan Moorish invaded Spain
@@ismailam9217 thats just the thumbnail, watch the video
@@soukainatips3204 but its not the same. the thumbnail is zelige, watch the video
ppl r just so annoying. its portuguese tile. go study some history or something and see the influences our culture is based on
You may not understand but this happens alot, if its from Europe, then its invented by European but if its from anywhere else it's inspired by Europe. Am sure you may not notice but we do, if this was any other culture, then the inspiration will definitely be mentioned but here its just ignored on purpose. Its ok of course, its not your problem.
Nusaibah Ibraheem no one is ignoring anything or any influences. why do people complicate things so much. nothing that is created by humans is 100% BRAND NEW, everything has influences from something else. even the moroccan tile or wtvr more that people are talking about have their influences from somewhere else. this is how cultures work, they develop things based on their needs and what they see from others etc etc. just don’t be so negative pls
@@anikasthfan it's moroccan because you can't find that anywhere else.
@@Youss45unreleased But the video shows that you can find it somewhere else, Portugal. I'm gonna start claiming morrocans stole our culture because of casa branca/blanca 🤣
@@Safirajuro No, because Moroccans didn’t steal the name Casabranca, the Portuguese gave it to the the original Anfa city.
very repetitive and labor intensive.
Binh TC Nguyen ur mom is repetitive and labor intensive
It's not Portuguese it's Andalusian !
source on that please, if not bullshit
its literally one of the most iconic portuguese artwork wdym lol
@@d4tenshi well its actually Arabic and you can find them everywhere in the arab world but never in Europe except for Andalusia and Portugal where the the Arabs ruled for 800 years.
Save Kualas it’s not the same it’s just rly similar. We had a lot of influences from Arabic culture, not just in the tiles
@@MrGabiiiii94 Morocco.. ugh
These are not basically portugese tiles these originated in India and Vasco di gama came to India he took it with him
I respect the art and craft it takes to make these tiles, but it just looks so old and outdated. Southern Europe really needs to get with the times.
What??
destinationskyline07 and what, buy ikea?
get a grip, we are not going to change our culture just cuz u have no taste and like to see modern ugly buildings
@@alphazar 😆
How is this outdated? This is pretty
This is Arabic(andalouss) tiles not Portuguese
The style came to Portugal during hundreds of years of Moorish rule over a thousand years ago, naturally the style stayed and evolved in its own way
Yeah but it existed way before that in morocco
@@meryelbak8599 I think the main difference between the 2 is that in Portugal there's usually less of a focus on geometry and more on painted scenes, ofc how they're both made is the same but the depictions are quite different
Actually you can look up in internet « zellige beldi fes », fes being a city in Morocco and see all the different colorful designs. The thing is the moors were Moroccans as that the almohads and almoravids were both moroccan dynasties with a capital in morocco that governed southern spain and potugal. So a lot of moroccan craft was transmitted there. Just like alhambra... where similar architecture was already built before in morocco.
Tomas Cardoso I just think that the video should have had mentioned Morocco as the designs shown are Moroccans as they have already existed in Morocco (just go to fes and it’s historical monuments) as the viewer would think that the zellige origin is Portugal while it’s not
most of them looks arabic to me
Araric and mid orient people are a milions and milions years of mix betuin europeians, asians and africans. But the europeian genetic is more strong and made they look like south/mediterranean people of Europe. 👨
No azulejos are found in the Arabian peninsula.
É difícil caramba entender português de Portugal. Eu prefiro o sotaque paulista o de Janeiro
É, eles "comem" umas vogais... Eu tive que voltar o video e ler as legendas algumas vezes.
That’s Moroccan not Portuguese!
No
Wrong right there.
Beautiful tiles but not one woman in the factory.