Casa de los Azulejos
Colonial palace facade sheathed floor to roof in blue-and-white tin-glazed tiles from Puebla.
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This guide to Casa de los Azulejos in Mexico City opens in 1737 with a tiler named Diego Duran Berruecos setting blue-and-white talavera poblana tiles across a stone palace, and traces the craft's journey from Talavera de la Reina in Spain to the workshops of Puebla. You'll hear about Countess Graciana Suárez Peredo, who commissioned the tiled facade, and a local legend about a disgraced son determined to prove his father wrong. Listen for how a centuries-old glazing technique still holds up on the wall in front of you.
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