Tiles arrived in the Iberian Peninsula with Muslim occupation, which used mosaics to cover the walls of their palaces. This new industry develops mainly due to the interest showed by the nobility and the clergy by making great orders to decorate the walls of churches, convents, palaces and gardens. Among the most common representations that can been seen in tiles are historical or mythological episodes, military campaigns, daily or religious scenes. The reconstruction of Lisbon after the earthquake of 1755 seems to have worked as a new impulse in the production of standard tiles, creating what we call nowadays the Pombaline tiles, which were used to decorate the buildings of the new Lisbon.
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