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Learning Ceramics in Deruta: Umbria’s Six-Hundred-Year Craft
The town of Deruta, south of Perugia in Umbria, has been making decorated maiolica ceramics since the fourteenth century. The craft is still practised in…
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The town of Deruta, south of Perugia in Umbria, has been making decorated maiolica ceramics since the fourteenth century. The craft is still practised in…
Umbria offers medieval hilltowns, exceptional olive oil, white truffles, Sagrantino wine, and a quality of silence that Tuscany has largely traded away for tourism.