How a 16th century rhino inspired Portugal's famous pavement art – BBC REEL
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Published 2023-01-25
Legend has it that in the 1500s, a rhino sent from India, and the first ever seen in Europe, jumpstarted the Portugal pavement art tradition.
True or not, the fact is that this art form may be close to disappearing.
Video by Next Stop Stories
Narrator: Jemilla Olufeko
Executive Producer: Griesham Taan
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All Comments (21)
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Just got back from Lisbon where I spent hours starting down at the pavement designs and picking up loose limestone chunks like they were gemstones… love how the surface gets smooth from decades of people shuffling across it
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Portugal 🇵🇹 - the most epic little country on the planet.
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Poor Ganda. They should have let him stay in Portugal where he was treated like a king. But I guess he lives on as a part of the Tower Of Belem. 💖 Calceteiros, don't let this beautiful art die.
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Great little documentary. A wonderful reel.
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Some of those are jaw-droppers!
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Very pretty streets!
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Many thanks for a nice documental! Love Portugal!
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Fantastic, how unknown was the world for the Europeans in the XVth and XVIth century. I will never understood those persons that criticize the Discoveries Age, like the world just a few killometers further the tightened limits of any small village, would be unknow and interested forever!!! Like ignorance was a good thing to preserve...
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Any chance you can provide the direct link to the virtual catalogue of the physial moulds?
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I heard: - This work is an art that requires a lot of practise, patience and attention to minuteness in a back breaking position under the sun. - This profession is underpaid and considered low-skilled - why to young people do not feel attracted to this and we're struggling to find new peolpe under the danger this art may die? 🤐😑🙃
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Que calçadas tão lindas! São assim em Salvador da Bahia🇧🇷 Gostaria muito conhecer o Portugal🇵🇹
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The mosaic pavements are art, why it is so cheap to make, why not to pay the masters a better rate? Asphalt would be so much cheaper and ugliest, but probable less dangerous for the stilettos...
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Wow, a very good art Indeed, Love from India, From where the "Genda" came😁
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💚❤️🇵🇹👍🏻
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Ganda? Wow, "Ganda-mirugam" is Rhinoceros is Tamil (One of the Indian Languages)!! (Basically, mirugam means animal or monster, so you could make out the meaning)
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I would like the Portuguese pavement for my driveway.
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Poor title. Disproven in the video.
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👎 Because I'm hard of hearing I need the english auto translate, but it shows [Music], so these BBC documentaries are useless to me ☹❗
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Low salaries for the Calceteiros only in Portugal !!! A lot (believe me, a lot) left the country and earn much more in Spain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Italy, Belgium, Canada, US, etc.
