Let us guide you around Faenza, a city known all over the world for its ceramic production so that the term Faïence
has become synonymous of ceramic in various languages.
The name of Faenza is strictly linked to the production of artistic majolica, as in ceramic are the street name signs, the
civic numbers and the signs of commercial activities.

Faenza is also an elegant town that since 1300, thanks to the local powerful family of the Manfredi, was embellished
with monuments and palaces that still have kept their charm.

This tour is all focused on the world of ceramics, and it includes an in-depth visit of the MIC – International Museum of
Ceramics: with more than 15.000 ceramic works it is the largest collection in the world of this ancient art. In its rooms, it
is documented the culture of ceramics spanning five continents and many centuries: from Classical Greece to Islamic
and Pre-Columbian ceramics, from the Italian Renaissance to masterpieces of contemporary artists such as Picasso,
Chagall, and Matisse. The museum is also committed to keeping the ceramic tradition alive with the establishment of
the “Premio Faenza”, an international biennial competition on artistic ceramics, and with the publication of the
magazine Faenza.

The ceramic tradition in town is not limited to museum space but is kept alive daily in the many artisan studios in the
city: a visit to a ceramic workshop will allow us to know in depth this ancient art and to meet ceramist masters who will
show the various processing stages of Faenza majolica and their works.

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Faenza isn’t just ceramics. It is is also an elegant town that since 1300, thanks to the local powerful family of the Manfredi, was embellished with monuments and palaces that still have kept their charm. Shortening (or cancelling) the visit to the MIC o to the ceramic workshop it would be possible to include a walk in the historical center, through the adjacent Piazza del Popolo and Piazza della Libertà, considered one of the most beautiful squares of Italy. Here we will admire the exterior of the palaces of the Podestà and the Capitano del Popolo, with the characteristic facades with a fifteenth-century loggia, and the Cathedral, built by Giuliano da Maiano, that has typical forms of the Florentine Renaissance.

DURATION: 3 hours