The word "azulezush" Portugal came from Arabic and means "polished stone". Traditional Portuguese tile-azulezush - a painted clay tiles, baked, and most often a square shape. Tiles used for walls, on hot days, it keeps you cool, and winter in the house was not wet.

In Lisbon, in the eastern part, there is the National Museum of tiles-azulezush, which presents the history and development of this unique art in Portugal for five centuries. The museum's collection - the only one in the world. The museum is located in the Madre de Deus Monastery, built by Queen Leonora, the widow of King Juan II. An earthquake in 1755 destroyed the monastery, it was later reconstructed building. Originally the building was built in the Manueline style (the portal of the church), and later were added to the Renaissance and Baroque elements that make this building one of the most beautiful buildings in the city. The monastery has a beautiful chapel, the ceiling of which is decorated in the style of Mudejar. In the design of the monastery there azulezush tiles and gilded carvings. Azulezush tiles lined the corridors, courtyards, a chapel, and staircase.

The museum's collection includes rare specimens of Spanish and Dutch tiles, as well as works by such renowned artists as Julio Barradash Maria Keil, Júlio Pomar, Manuel Kargaleyro, Cherub Lapa. The most striking exhibits - the blue-white composition of the 1,300 tiles azulezush, length 23 meters, showing a panorama of Lisbon in 1738 before the Great Earthquake. In addition, visitors can see the tiles of the fifteenth century, which, for example, were faced with a wall of the Royal Palace in Sintra.