Houses, places and the Portuguese property market, written by us

In 1905 the owner of the Constância tile factory built on Rua das Janelas Verdes and dressed it in his own ceramics. The story of an Art Nouveau showcase.

Five centuries of Portuguese tiles, from the Moorish patterns of Sintra to the Lisbon Metro: how to read an azulejo, date it and look after it at home.

The Count of Farrobo gave Lisbon its wildest parties. In Águeda, his descendants' quinta keeps a tiled verse that praises a quieter happiness.

For eight centuries, Augustinian canons lived around a granite cloister above the Tâmega. In the seventeenth century they turned their Romanesque house into a Baroque one.

Long before Raul Lino arrived in 1920, the Quinta de São Sebastião was a country estate of the age of King João V: royal arms, fountains, tanks and walls of tile.