Our environmentally friendly souvenir-magnet is made on a pressed sheet of cork oak bark, and is decorated natural sand from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. Such a natural souvenir will surely take its rightful place in your collection of magnets.
Originally, the word zulaycha or zuleija ("small polished stone") came to Portuguese from Arabic. Ceramic tiles
made in the ancient East and used for wall cladding. The Arabs brought glazed tiles (zulaij) with them to Spain (where he became
called "azulejos") and Portugal (where the same word was pronounced "azulejo"). Traditional Portuguese azulejo is
painted clay tiles, most often square in shape, fired, glazed, measuring 14 cm by 14 cm.The oldest azulejos in Portugal
(Royal Palace in Sintra, Conceisan Monastery in Beja) came from Seville and date back to the 15th century. Their surface is embossed, partitions and
the grooves prevented unwanted mixing of the colors. The ornament, according to Muslim tradition, consisted mainly of stars. In the 16th century, the Italians
the technique of majolica was adopted by applying paints to a flat surface covered with zinc glaze. New themes also came from Italy,
for example, scenes from ancient myths. The motives of painting - partly ornamental, partly naturalistic - all became
more diverse and colorful. Since the middle of the 17th century, the azulejo technique has undergone changes associated with an increasing import from Holland. Instead
the usual multicolor, artists began to use exclusively the contrast between white and cobalt blue, and as subjects
preferred to use genre compositions. Lisbon has a ceramics museum, where the development of such a characteristic
Portugal's tile art from the early stages to the present day. One of the exhibits is a 40 m long panorama of Lisbon,
executed in 1730 and showing what the city was like before it was destroyed by an earthquake on November 1, 1755.
Material: cork bark, sea sand, magnet, varnish-and-paint materials.
Size: 10x7.7 cm.
weight: 24 g.
Manufacturer: Handmade, own production. Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal.
