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 Calçada Portuguesa: the black and white mosaic art of Portuguese pavement Calçada Portuguesa or mosaic cobblestones in Porto All about Calçada Portuguesa In mid-nineteenth-century Lisbon, a new art form was created, Calçada Portuguesa or simply Calçada ( Pedra Portuguesa in Brazil), which has since become a traditional-style cobblestone pavement, as typical of Lisbon's ' Pastel de Nata ' the beloved local custard tarts, or the charming blue-white ' Azulejos ' hand-painted tiles or the ubiquitous ' Liós ' Stone Monuments made from the local Cretaceous microcrystalline limestone.  The irregularly shaped cobblestones, hewn from either limestone or basalt, in shades of black and white, are painstakingly carved by hand and laid out by the talented hands of ' calceteiros ' or master pavers to form decorative patterns or recreate Portuguese history and art.  Calceteiros,  or master pavers, at work (Source: Internet) The desired pattern is first covered ...

Traditional Portuguese food at Lisbon Airport   We flew into Lisbon this morning on TAP Portugal Airlines just in time for lunch, and with a couple hours to kill before our connection to the Madeira Islands in the Azores. Normally I wouldn’t blog about airport food. But this is different, trust me. Thanks to O Mercado in Terminal 1, we got to savour pratos tradicionals or traditional Portuguese dishes, which is definitely something to write about. Anyone who has tasted Portuguese cuisine knows that the national dish of Portugal 🇵🇹 is salted codfish . I know that sounds rather unappetizing but not if you refer to it by its official name Bacalao or Bacalhau.  Sounds way better, right?  But it’s the things the Portuguese do salted codfish it that are so remarkable. The codfish is caught in the frigid waters of the North Sea, and has been cured in vast quantities of salt and dried under the Mediterranean's hot sun. This ancient method of preservation means the salted dry ...