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- DESCRIPTION
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- In the
heart of Sicily, picturesque position, surrounded by Iblei
mounts on one side and by Erei mounts on the other, in a
landscape characterized through calcareous rocks, the town of
Caltagirone has been famous since very antique times for the
valuable industry of majolica and the manufactured articles are
visible everywhere along the streets of the old town centre in
the many handicraft shops.
- The
Arabian domination corresponds to a crucial period in the
history of the town. It was in that period that the
topographical profile, characterized through narrow lanes, took
shape which the town has conserved till now and thanks to
Arabians the local ceramists refined and learned new techniques
such as the realization of polychromatic ceramics glazed on
glass. Among the Islamic still intact lanes the following stand
out: the famous stairs of Chiesa Santa Maria del Monte, the
Museum of ceramics and the Norman Dom.
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