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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.
Juni 1884 [146] Examples of typical pottery from Caldas da Rainha. Caldas da Rainha is well known for its glazed ceramic pottery (louça das Caldas). The New York Times has called Caldas "[t]he capital of Portuguese pottery". [17] The city is at "the center of a region rich in clay", where pottery has been made since the Neolithic Era.
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Castel-Branco Pereira, João – Portuguese tiles from the National Museum of Azulejo, Lisbon, 1995, ISBN 0-302-00661-3; Turner, J. – Tile – History and Uses, Portugal in Grove Dictionary of Art, MacMillan, 1996, ISBN 0-19-517068-7; The Rough Guide to Portugal – 11th edition March 2005 – ISBN 1-84353-438-X
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Portuguese pavement, known in Portuguese as calçada portuguesa or simply calçada (or pedra portuguesa in Brazil), is a traditional-style pavement used for many pedestrian areas in Portugal. It consists of small pieces of stone arranged in a pattern or image, like a mosaic .
Nicolau Chanterene (1485-1555), French sculptor and architect who worked mainly in Portugal and Spain; Eduardo Teixeira Coelho (1919-2005), comic book artist; Evelina Coelho (1945–2013), painter; José Dias Coelho (1923-1961) Jorge Colaço (1868-1942) João Cutileiro (1937-2021), sculptor especially of women's torsos in marble
The Alcobaça Monastery or Alcobasa Monastery (Portuguese: Mosteiro de Alcobaça, Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaça) is a Catholic monastic complex located in the town of Alcobaça (or Alcobasa, Portuguese pronunciation: [alkuˈβasɐ] ⓘ), in central Portugal, 120 km (75 mi) north of Lisbon and 110 km (68 mi) south of Coimbra.