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What’s blue and white and Portuguese?
Something that appears in (or even on) nearly every old Portuguese home, are the traditional blue and white tiles.
They have a name: Azulejos.
They were originally introduced to the Iberian area by the Moors, and their popularity continued after they left. But I didn’t know why they were originally designed with only geometric patterns of triangles, squares and diamonds though – this was apparently because many of the Moors belonged to the Sunni branch of Islam which prohibited images of living things.
However, floral patterns and religious themes began to be produced by Portuguese and Flemish artists in the 16th century, and blue, yellow and white still remained the favourite colour combination. But the ever expanding Portuguese empire provided increasingly more exotic themes and colours.
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