Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Portuguese doors are some of the most distinctive in the world. This beautiful dusty green door with swirled mullion and elegant moulding caught my eye. I was immediately drawn to the bright green azulejos that would not look out of place in the National Tile Museum in Lisbon.
This door lives in Caldas da Rainha, a town of about 30,000 people in Central Portugal. Caldas’ is the historic home of the ceramics factory of Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro. Caldas’ other claim to fame are ceramics shaped like a certain part of the male anatomy…
We combined a day trip to Caldas with a visit to the Óbidos Chocolate Festival (clearly a winning combination).