Museo del Azulejo

A neat surprise!

Tile museum? That's right! three floors of colourful history- hundreds of years of variety from Europe and South America. Some of these tiles were very artistic, almost surreal or psychedelic. I'm...

Maybe beautiful but closed with no notification

There was no notification about the fact that the museum will be closed on Tuesday 24 December. We waited for 15 minutes to be opened...

Amazing variety

This is three floors of variety. It was hard to choose an area of the museum: Within any one group of tiles, there's usually a lot of difference in pattern, color, etc. If you just glance at every til...

European tiles and more

Can't believe there are over 4,000 tiles here with a majority of them made in France from the late 18th century. If you are in the neighborhood, check out this local museum. There are some basic han...

For tiles lovers

If you like tiles, this museum is a good place to visit. And you can be guided by Margarita, who knows well about the history of each one. It´s free and it has 3 floors full of tiles from different co...