Weekly Photo Challenge: Together

Posted on May 3, 2012 | 3 Comments

Talavera de la Reina Ceramic Art Spain

Ceramic Street Art – Talavera de La Riena

During the 15th and 16th centuries, Talavera achieved great recognition, thanks to its ceramics. Wonderful pieces of pottery and Talavera tiles are found in the main museums of the world and in the most luxurious palaces all over Europe. The city is internationally known for its products, which King Philip II used as tiled revetments in many of his works, such as the monastery of El Escorial. The nickname of Talavera de la Reina is ‘The City of Pottery’ and Mexico’s famous Talavera pottery was named after the city.

Read the full story…

This entry was posted in Europe, History, Spain and tagged , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

3 responses to “Weekly Photo Challenge: Together”

  1. magsx2 | May 3, 2012 at 7:35 am | Reply

    Hi,
    Very interesting history, and I love the statues. 🙂

    Like

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.