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Where Portuguese ceramics come from
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Lisbon and Sintra
A national tile museum, a factory founded in 1741 that offers booked visits, and a factory shop in Sintra.
Read the detailsPorto
Tile panels in a working railway station: São Bento, covered in more than 20,000 tiles by Jorge Colaço.
Read the detailsCaldas da Rainha
Home of the Bordallo Pinheiro faïence factory, operating since 1884, and its cabbage-leaf ware.
Read the detailsBarcelos
The town of the Rooster of Barcelos and of figurado, small painted clay figures.
Read the detailsVista Alegre (Ílhavo)
A Portuguese porcelain maker founded in Ílhavo by royal licence in 1824, with a company museum that opened in 1964.
Read the detailsEstremoz
The Alentejo town of the Estremoz clay figures, on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Read the detailsBisalhães (black pottery)
The black pottery of Bisalhães, a craft UNESCO lists as needing urgent safeguarding.
Read the detailsMolelos (Tondela)
A village in Tondela known for black pottery, whose production process entered the national intangible heritage inventory in 2025.
Read the detailsNisa
Known for pottery decorated with small quartz fragments, with a municipal museum of embroidery and clay.
Read the detailsAlentejo potteries (São Pedro do Corval, Redondo)
Two Alentejo pottery towns: São Pedro do Corval and Redondo, which has a municipal clay museum.
Read the detailsCoimbra (faïence)
A historic faïence centre. Not yet checked against an official source.
Read the detailsViana do Castelo (faïence)
Viana’s ceramic story is its faïence, not its famous gold filigree. Not yet checked against an official source.
Read the detailsMadeira
We found no evidence of a distinct ceramic production tradition in Madeira, so we do not claim one. It has collections where you can see ceramics and azulejos.
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