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HOTEL FAENZA AND ITALY CERAMICS
Faenza is known on an international level as one of the biggest centres of majolica such as ceramics production. Rising on the strategic communication line of the Via Emilia, the Roman Faventia, with probably Etruscan origins, knew the time of its greatest splendour in the art of artistic and handcraft ceramics between the Medieval and the Renaissance. The city of Faenza, thanks to its ground rich of clay, lives in symbiosis with its elected art since the 12th century, period of the first handmade furnaces, while during the Renaissance the period of highest fame and splendour of the artistic activity of the ceramics of Faenza can be collocated. If today, in the whole world, the ceramics are identified with the name of the city of the Romagna, that’s because of the consumed art and the unique creativity of the masters of ceramics of Faenza, precious cultural heredity that reaches up to our days. Who likes this kind of art, has to come to visit the city of Faenza. Everywhere the artistic spirit that pervades it can be breathed and it is easy to be captured by its charm exploring the ceramic workshops and the museums, public and private ones, where it is possible to admire fragile, precious and snagged master pieces born from terracotta and fire. Near the International museum of ceramics , that is alone a visit of Faenza worth, with its extraordinary collections of pottery art of all over the world and of all epochs, personal collections and unique pieces, testimony of the work and the talent of generations of ceramic masters, can be admired at the private museum of the Bottega Gatti, antique ceramic workshop of Faenza. For further information please visit the official homepage of the town Council of faenza .
