Signs are made of blue-and-white glazed tiles, azulejos.

And, in some corner of my vision, there was always a single, magnificent, blue-and-white glazed tile portraying a saint or just naming a street.

His cane tapped against the blue-and-white tiles covering the floor of the courtyard.

Display cases hold pretty ceramics, and the walls are trimmed with blue-and-white tiles.

But the hotel's interior is a careful rendition of an upscale Moroccan home, with blue-and-white mosaic tiles and ceiling fans.

You can buy a single blue-and-white tile, an address plaque for your house, or an entire set of plates.

The blue-and-white tiles on the wall are arranged in hexagons and triangles in the Bursa manner.

The triangular tower has chequered blue-and-white tiles.

They stopped before a narrow house faced in gleaming blue-and-white patterned tile.

At one end was a huge fireplace faced with the same lovely blue-and-white tile Adam had seen in Lisbon.