Faenza is an Italian city of Etruscan-roman origins, worldwide known for having developed a ceramic art at the highest levels, since the first centuries after 1000 AD. Faenza reached the peak of its artistic and technical fame in the 16th Century during the Renaissence age, with its elegant “Whites of Faenza”, that excelled in ceramic art and technique. They influenced potters not only in Italy but also abroad.
Since then, Faenza has become, all over the Western World, the City of Ceramics par excellence, so much as its name in the French translation Faïence indicates Ceramic Art. The tradition and culture of ceramics remains the vital hub of modern Faenza with its International Ceramics Museum containing splendid collections from all centuries and countries, its 60 artists’ workshops, the artistic and technical schools, its international events based on the traditional and contemporary production of majolica.
Precious neoclassical architecture, elegant shops, fine restaurants both in the center and in the green, gentle beautiful hills surrounding the city and all the ceramic contexts are in Faenza a perfect example of the best Italian lifestyle where art, creativity, innovation, and research meets landscape, history, and clay.
