Caltagirone sicily

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Scrumpdillyicious: Caltagirone: Sicily's Colourful Capital of Ceramics Sicilian Pottery, Painted Ceramics, Miniature Schnauzer Puppies, Old Plates, Wine Bucket, Handmade Plates, Schnauzer Puppy, Italian Pottery, Italian Ceramics

The hilltop village of Caltagirone rises like a mirage above the parched landscape of central Sicily. While the ceramic tradition dates to prehistoric times, the name of the town itself is Arabic in origin, a derivation of the words 'kalat' and 'gerun', meaning 'castle' and 'cave'. Little remains of the town's early structures, as it was almost entirely destroyed by the earthquake in 1693. Subsequently rebuilt in the baroque style so typical of Sicily's southeast, it is one of the islands…

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