Who comes once in the holiday or business in the Portuguese capital, should focus be sure its on the wall tiles. Who comes once in the holiday or business in the Portuguese capital, should focus be sure its on the wall tiles. The city at the mouth of the Tagus is worldwide the metropolis for wall tiles. Wonderful wall tiles on historic buildings found anywhere in the old town. How extensive are the wall tiles in Lisbon, shows the work of a research group. For ten years, they try to map out the wall tiles in Lisbon and photograph. It is still open, how old are the oldest wall tiles in the capital city of Portugal.

Unfortunately also wonderful historical wall tiles for posterity were lost through earthquakes, fires and floods. The wall tiles in Lisbon are in most cases based on the same principle. The background of wall tiles is white and painted it blue. In most cases, the wall tiles have swirly ornaments. The special thing about it: the individual tiles can be arbitrarily combined.

So there is no up or down in the wall tiles. No matter how to rotate such a tile before applying, she adapts always to the existing. Who these wonderful patterns for wall tiles created is unclear. Experts assume that this decor were very strongly influenced by the Moors and Indians. In fact, there are many parallels to the very old wall tile in Lisbon and in historical buildings in India and the Arab world. Special wall tiles are also used in Lisbon. They are, in contrast to the others, not over a large area on the outer walls of the houses, but individually. Like the Portuguese a street or a House are under the protection of a particular Saint. This is painted on wall tiles and placed above the front door. The house number is to see in Lisbon as wall tiles. The same applies to the names of the inhabitants of a House. Here there are no even reselling in the letter box, but wall tiles.