2008-07-22 » 2- THIS PIECE OF SCULPTURE HAS BEEN STOLEN
Gardens of the Estói Palace, nearby Faro - Algarve, Portugal. The construction is from the eighteenth century ...
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2008-04-21 » (Azulejo - from the arabian al Zulaicj, that later became aljulej - small flat and polished stone).
The use of ceramic tiles in Portuguese architecture dates back to the 15th and 16th centuries, after the moorish presence and influence on the Iberian Peninsula.
The façade of a private house, Sintra - Portugal.
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2008-03-29 »
Some aspects of Santa Maria de Celas' cloister, Coimbra - Portugal.
A Cistercian feminin Monastery from 1210, National Monument (Monumento Nacional) decreed on June 6th 1910 (by that time Portugal was a Monarchy!). It is nowadays still one of the most important examples of Portuguese Medieval Art and Architecture.
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2008-03-13 » - of TAVIRA in the Algarve, Portugal.
The "scissors' (de tesoura) roofs", sometimes also called treasury's (de tesouro) and the latticed shutters or screens (called de reixa) on doors and windows, which are made of thin timber strips, are the most significant elements of local traditional architecture. Both solutions were developed [...]
2008-02-26 » - with uncertain origin (Roman? Medieval?), the bridge crosses the Arade River, has five arches (were there six of them originally?) and is built in stone fitted masonry - the typical reddish Silves' sandstone. The piers are protected by cutwaters (pointed elements on the pier-bases, to cut the wave chock [...]
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