"los Azulejos" in English

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Answer 1

They are tiles. The Spanish word "Azul" means "blue" of course and is the root of the word you're looking at.

The word originated from the Arabic where the shades of blue were highly prized. The preoccupation with the perfect blue seems to have been widespread in the Arabic world.

Certainly in India, in the Moghul period in particular, the blues were developed to be increasingly subtle and prized. Nowadays though, the word in general just means tiles, the blue is not obligatory. Spain

The Portuguese have their own take on the word and the application of the techniques which they took originally from the Spanish, who of course owe their knowledge of the techniques to the Arab empire which occupied Spain. The origin of the word and the technique is definitely Arabic however. Portugal

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