Città della Ceramica
Città della Ceramica in Lazio
3 towns
Lazio has 3 Città della Ceramica communes in our index. All sit in the province of Viterbo.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Acquapendente, Viterbo, and Tarquinia.
The towns
Acquapendente
Province: Viterbo · 420 m
One of the northernmost towns in Lazio, at 420 meters above the Paglia, named in 964 for its waterfalls.
- Written about. No. 66.
Viterbo
Province: Viterbo · 326 m
The medieval capital of the Tuscia, papal seat from 1257 to 1281, when five popes were elected here, and home to the longest conclave in Church history.
- Written about. No. 68.
Tarquinia
Province: Viterbo · 133 m
An Etruscan capital on a Maremma ridge whose 6,000 rock-cut tombs at Monterozzi hold one of the largest bodies of Etruscan painting to survive.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Torgiano
Province: Perugia
A walled river town at 219 meters at the confluence of the Tiber and the Chiascio, the first DOC and DOCG zone in Umbria.
Urbania
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
The Montefeltro ceramics town on the upper Metauro, known as Casteldurante until Pope Urban VIII gave it his name in 1636.
Castelnuovo Berardenga
Province: Siena
A commune of 351 meters, the last castle Siena built against Florence, in 1366.
Castelnuovo Magra
Province: La Spezia
A ridge village on the Liguria-Tuscany border where a marquisate treaty ended decades of conflict with the bishops of Luni.
Gozzano
Province: Novara
The town at the southern tip of Lake Orta, marked by a basilica and a twelfth-century signaling tower above the water.