The bar, famous for vermouth, is decorated in blue-and-white azulejo tiles, and its floor is strewn with sawdust.

There were attics, richly and brightly furnished; burnished recesses shining with Dutch tiles and Portuguese azulejos.

He told them about the attractive houses and flats in his home country, with their characteristic azulejos (painted, tin-glazed) tiles.

These houses are rich in Moorish porcelain tilings, called azulejos-fromthe Arabic ez-zulaïj-butthe best of these are in the patio of the citadel.