About the Festival
In 1467 the Infanta D. Brites ordered to its Palace of the Infantes, in Beja, tiles of the workshops of Manizes, Valencia. A new artistic and decorative element enters Portugal, then fills walls, floors and ceilings of a new national architecture, known as the Manueline-Mudéjar.
From here, from this city of millennia, begins the introduction of what is considered the first art of Portugal, its tile art, which decorates, in the same century the Convent of Jesus in Setúbal, the Sintra's Palace and the Quinta da Bacalhôa in Azeitão. Wanting to consolidate the dissemination of the tile, considered the Portuguese art par excellence, and the 5 centuries of tiles in situs in Beja, the only Portuguese city where this happens, adpBEJA organizes the BEJA TILE FESTIVAL | SOS AZULEJO with the participation of all schools in the municipality of Beja.
More than 2,500 children and young people and professors join the REPÚBLICA SQUARE in MAY and show the world the rich heritage of the city of Beja. Exhibitions, puzzles assembly, peddy paper, guided tours, music, street animation and tile painting workshops make up and fill a bright morning in the Republic Square.
From here, from this city of millennia, begins the introduction of what is considered the first art of Portugal, its tile art, which decorates, in the same century the Convent of Jesus in Setúbal, the Sintra's Palace and the Quinta da Bacalhôa in Azeitão. Wanting to consolidate the dissemination of the tile, considered the Portuguese art par excellence, and the 5 centuries of tiles in situs in Beja, the only Portuguese city where this happens, adpBEJA organizes the BEJA TILE FESTIVAL | SOS AZULEJO with the participation of all schools in the municipality of Beja.
More than 2,500 children and young people and professors join the REPÚBLICA SQUARE in MAY and show the world the rich heritage of the city of Beja. Exhibitions, puzzles assembly, peddy paper, guided tours, music, street animation and tile painting workshops make up and fill a bright morning in the Republic Square.
When the Assembly of the Republic approves a national tile day in 2017, in this city of BEJA, schools are already starting in 2014 to sensitize young people and to create new works, based on their tile art.
