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2. Porches Pottery - Wikipedia

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   Porches Pottery is a producer of hand-painted pottery in the town of Porches, in the Algarve region of Portugal. The pottery style was founded in 1968 by artists Patrick Swift and Lima de Freitas , in order to revive a traditional Algarve pottery industry.

3. Vista Alegre (company) - Wikipedia

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   Vista Alegre is a luxury Portuguese porcelain manufacturer located in Ílhavo in the district of Aveiro, Portugal. [1] By May 2001, Grupo Vista Alegre joined with the Atlantis group and created the largest national tableware Group and the sixth in the world in this speciality: the Grupo Vista Alegre Atlantis. Fabrica de Porcelana Vista Alegre ...

4. Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde

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   The government established a system to monitor and preserve the archeological resources; the events of the so-called "Battle of Côa" led to the establishment in May 1997 of the National Centre for Prehistoric Art (Portuguese: Centro Nacional de Arte Rupestre/CNART) and the Archaeological Park of the Côa Valley (Portuguese: Parque ...

5. List of World Heritage Sites in Portugal - Wikipedia

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   The Portuguese site, listed in 1998, is located in the Côa Valley. The Siega Verde site in Spain was added as an extension in 2010. The Siega Verde site in Spain was added as an extension in 2010. The carvings, representing especially animals (over 5000 figures), were made over the course of several millennia, from the Upper Paleolithic to the ...

6. Ceramics Museum of Sacavém - Wikipedia

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   The Ceramics Museum of Sacavém (Portuguese: Museu de Cerâmica de Sacavém) is situated in the town of Sacavém in the municipality of Loures, just northeast of Lisbon in Portugal. The museum was opened in July 2000 and was constructed on the grounds of a former ceramics factory. Most of the exhibits reflect the output of that factory and its ...

7. Azulejo - Wikipedia

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   Azulejo (Portuguese: [ɐzuˈle(j)ʒu, ɐzuˈlɐjʒu], Spanish:; from the Arabic الزليج, al-zillīj) [1] [2] is a form of Portuguese and Spanish painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework. Azulejos are found on the interior and exterior of churches , palaces , ordinary houses, schools, and nowadays, restaurants, bars and even railways or subway ...

8. Category:Portuguese pottery - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "Portuguese pottery" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. V. Vista Alegre (company)

9. Artisanal Talavera of Puebla and Tlaxcala - Wikipedia

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   [5] [10] [11] They did not change the ceramic processes, but added human forms, animals, other items and traditional images of flowers to the designs. [10] One of the display rooms at the Uriarte workshop. Since then there has been some resurgence in the craft. In the 2000s, seventeen workshops were producing Talavera in the old tradition.