“Tabique” is a construction technique typical from Northern Portugal (Douro region) used for both exterior and interior walls above the ground floor, which was always built with regular stonemasonry blocks. Tabique constructions consisted of a timber structural frame, whose spaces were filled with a nogging of clay, mortar and sometimes chopped straw (“taipa de rodizio” – Figure 67.a) or with wood laths nailed horizontally across the wall studs (“taipa de fasquio” – Figure 67.b). A three-coat plaster was applied to finish the walls before painting (Figure 67.c).