1. Caltagirone’s
ceramics

2. History of the maioliche decreased some from to the days ours Caltagirone Qal’at to the Ghiran, that is Rocca of Is gone : the vocation of the city to the ceramics is enrolled in its some one puts into effect them name of Arabic origin.
That of the ceramics of Caltagirone is a history millenarian . An ininterrupted tradition that for millenia , from when the man has learned to dominate the water,the earth,the air and the fire,has always had is this city generations of craftsman ,but also of artists, han they have interpreted some in way originates them the ability to create forms and colors.

3. The ceramics, for all the period of the XVI and XV century rich are decorated in manganese, in some cases with it touches and background paintings in green ramina. The enamel acquires greater thickness and covers, with the exception of how much it happened in the late-sveva ceramics,also the superficial exsternal of the vasellame whose support in terracotta is, but, more often and tornito with smaller it cures. The honor seems to recall itself to the magnificent art of the woven one and the sicilian embroidery,but also to the Catalan tradition.

4. The “manganese” leaves the place to a decoration of transition with faded touches of green ramina, hems in blue and yellow-orange,geometric riquadrature in blue, with some honor of birdis or landscapes we often floral reasons from the free paint-brush without contour.

5. Caltagirone’s museum is the most important ceramic center in the Sicily. In this museum there are much archeological finds. Typical maiolica flat with floreal motives in blue and white soup plate.