The historic center of Porto, in Portugal, is a UNESCO World Heritage site and an area full of narrow, hilly streets, some cobblestoned. Many of the 17 th and 18 th century buildings here stand ...

The walls of the sunny courtyard outside José Palha’s farmhouse are decorated with hand-painted blue and white tiles, a traditional Portuguese craft. Next to the front door is a large tiled ...

I had to be restrained in Lisbon, and up in the hills at Sintra, from continually stroking walls of azulejos, those gorgeously patterned and (mostly) blue and white tiles that define streetscapes ...

Porto takes pride in its beaches, old churches covered in blue-and-white tiles and its famous port wine named after the city in northern Portugal. It’s also home to a different kind of church ...