How a 16th century rhino inspired Portugal's famous pavement art - BBC REEL

Beneath the feet of everyone who visits the city of Lisbon, Portugal, lie hidden gems - floor mosaics made with limestone.
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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  • @TagusMan
    @TagusMan Жыл бұрын

    Portugal 🇵🇹 - the most epic little country on the planet.

  • @FartSquirel

    @FartSquirel

    Жыл бұрын

    being transformed in the most epic multiculti shithole as we speak.

  • @PortugalZeroworldcup

    @PortugalZeroworldcup

    3 ай бұрын

    Viriato,ferdinand Magellan, Pedro nunes

  • @anttikuusmetso

    @anttikuusmetso

    3 ай бұрын

    Absolutamente de acordo!

  • @langbeach
    @langbeach9 ай бұрын

    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

  • @Thedarkmamba
    @Thedarkmamba Жыл бұрын

    Great little documentary. A wonderful reel.

  • @joanofarcxxi
    @joanofarcxxi Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @maxasaurus3008
    @maxasaurus3008 Жыл бұрын

    Some of those are jaw-droppers!

  • @anttikuusmetso
    @anttikuusmetso3 ай бұрын

    Many thanks for a nice documental! Love Portugal!

  • @zapfanzapfan
    @zapfanzapfan Жыл бұрын

    Very pretty streets!

  • @paulacon28
    @paulacon28Ай бұрын

    Que calçadas tão lindas! São assim em Salvador da Bahia🇧🇷 Gostaria muito conhecer o Portugal🇵🇹

  • @Smendricx82
    @Smendricx82 Жыл бұрын

    Any chance you can provide the direct link to the virtual catalogue of the physial moulds?

  • @MrJovision
    @MrJovision Жыл бұрын

    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...

  • @rajdeeproy9741
    @rajdeeproy97413 күн бұрын

    Wow, a very good art Indeed, Love from India, From where the "Genda" came😁

  • @joelcardoso3617
    @joelcardoso3617 Жыл бұрын

    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? 🤐😑🙃

  • @luistheserrano4785

    @luistheserrano4785

    2 ай бұрын

    It's sad, but true, there are young people in Portugal without a job, on the dole receiving unemployment benefits and prefer being in that situation rather than having an honest and respectable job like this

  • @i-dx2ow
    @i-dx2ow Жыл бұрын

    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...

  • @txexmxiii2125
    @txexmxiii2125 Жыл бұрын

    💗

  • @mgithaiga1
    @mgithaiga16 ай бұрын

    I would like the Portuguese pavement for my driveway.

  • @suevialania
    @suevialania Жыл бұрын

    💚❤️🇵🇹👍🏻

  • @SidK26
    @SidK263 ай бұрын

    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)

  • @SidK26

    @SidK26

    3 ай бұрын

    And so is in Hindi - "Gainda". Makes more sense now.

  • @SolaceEasy
    @SolaceEasy Жыл бұрын

    Poor title. Disproven in the video.

  • @4623620
    @4623620 Жыл бұрын

    👎 Because I'm hard of hearing I need the english auto translate, but it shows [Music], so these BBC documentaries are useless to me ☹❗

  • @satishpatel5260
    @satishpatel5260 Жыл бұрын

    PORTUGAL, VACO DA GAMA,discover AFRICA 🌍 came in MOZAMBIQUE 🇲🇿, ANGOLA 🇦🇴, AFRICA 🌍,,, 👉🇿🇲ZIKHOMO

  • @satishpatel5260

    @satishpatel5260

    Жыл бұрын

    👉🇿🇲Twhalumbe, Zikhomo 🌍👌

  • @saragomes6242

    @saragomes6242

    Жыл бұрын

    Não descobriu África, descobriu sim o caminho marítimo para a Índia

  • @fernandoruicastrovalente3086

    @fernandoruicastrovalente3086

    Ай бұрын

    And Índia, Calicut, Goa and Daman/Diu.

  • @joaomaxado65
    @joaomaxado65 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @suevialania

    @suevialania

    Жыл бұрын

    Where''s the Portuguese pavement in those countries???

  • @satishpatel5260

    @satishpatel5260

    Жыл бұрын

    Plus in AFRICA 🌍, INDIA 🇮🇳. place GOA,

  • @joaomaxado65

    @joaomaxado65

    Жыл бұрын

    @@suevialania Mostly in rich private places (homes, hotels, private companies and a few touristic places). More outside Portugal, Brasil and former colonies is very expensive.

  • @pauvermelho

    @pauvermelho

    Жыл бұрын

    É impressão minha ou o Isaltino (CMO) detesta calçada portuguesa? Sempre que fazem obras nas ruas o gajo tira a calçada

  • @pauvermelho

    @pauvermelho

    Жыл бұрын

    Gostava de aprender para pôr no meu quintal 😀 Quanto tempo é que dura o curso?

  • @guff9567
    @guff9567 Жыл бұрын

    Those pavements are highly dangerous: old people, people in wheelchairs and people with babies prefer to walk in the road

  • @jeanlundi2141

    @jeanlundi2141

    Жыл бұрын

    Highly dangerous is a gross exageration. And they aren't the only pavements commonly used in cities around the world that can be dangerous sometimes.

  • @guff9567

    @guff9567

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jeanlundi2141 Let's just stick to Portugal please.

  • @kvlocks3138

    @kvlocks3138

    9 ай бұрын

    Allow me to say that no one in Portugal ever finds it dangerous unless they're wearing high heels in the rain. You kinda learn how to walk on it, since every street in the country has it.

  • @guff9567

    @guff9567

    9 ай бұрын

    @@kvlocks3138 Idiot. Why don't you just GO THERE ?

  • @Genny-Zee
    @Genny-Zee Жыл бұрын

    Is Dua Lipa the narrator of this video? No I’m way off