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Talavera serving dish by Marcela Lobo on display at the Museo de Arte Popular, Mexico City. Artisanal Talavera of Puebla and Tlaxcala is a Mexican pottery tradition with heritage from the Talavera de la Reina pottery of Spain. In 2019, both traditions were included in UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. [1]
The city is internationally known for its ceramics, which Philip II of Spain used as tiled revetments in many of his works, such as the monastery of El Escorial. The nickname of Talavera de la Reina is 'The City of Pottery' (La Ciudad de la Cerámica, in Spanish). Mexico's famous Talavera pottery was named after the city.
Map of Spain. This is a list of ... Mexico City, Mexico; Miami-Dade County, United States; Montevideo, ... Talavera de la Reina [206] Bron, France; Faenza, Italy ...
Part of the facade, with azulejos. It is known that the original construction was built in the 16th century, and that it is actually made up of the union of two stately mansions, of which the one that was originally located on the south side was the one that belonged, together with the so-called Plazuela de Guardiola to a man named Damián Martínez. [6]
Uriarte is one of the oldest producers of Talavera pottery in Mexico. This is a kind of majolica, named after the city of Talavera de la Reina which had developed in Spain from Arab and Chinese origins and brought to Mexico after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. While majolica was made in a number of places in Mexico, it became highly ...
Talavera de la Reina pottery is a traditional type of faience, or tin-glazed earthenware made in Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain. The area has a long history of pottery , and dishes, jars, ceramics and other objects have been found in archaeological excavations, some materials dating to the Roman Empire .
The Santa Cruz Map (Also known as the Uppsala map) is the earliest known city map of Mexico City as the capital of New Spain. The map depicts the city’s layout with its buildings, streets, and waterways surrounded by the lakes of the basin of the Valley of Mexico and the countryside beyond. In the map one can also see images of daily life ...
Talavera (Catalan pronunciation: [talaˈβeɾa]) is a municipality of the comarca of the Segarra in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. References [ edit ]