Name of the stone: Rosa Portugal
Stone type: Marble
Color: Pink
Quarry location: Alentejo

Description of the stone: The Rosa Portugal marble is the country’s best-known stone. It is a calcitic medium-grained marble with a light pink tone and small whitish to brownish veins.
Peculiarities of the stone: It is found only in a small triangle between the cities of Borba, Estremoz, and Vila Viçosa in the Alentejo region. Since Roman times, it has been quarried and brought to the markets with many different names, like Rosa El-Rei, Rosa Venado, Rosa Salmao, Ruivina, Pele de Tigre, or Estremoz Marble, just to name a few. Under the name of Estremoz Marble, it is one of Portugal’s Geoheritage Stones – materials with many colors that played and still play an important role worldwide in architecture, art and culture.
Application: inside and outside for floors, walls, façades, sculptures
Finishes: polished, honed, sandblasted, bushhammered, and many others
Frost resistant: No
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