Tag: Italy

My trips to Italy remain some of the most luxuriant memories I have due to the gracefulness of just about everything about the country and its people.

Case in point is the history of ceramics in the region around Savona and Albisola, nestled into the coastal plains that stretch from the Ligurian Sea all the way to France to the west, to the Piedmont to the north, and to Tuscany to the east. Savona continues to be a hotbed for creativity, especially where Ligurian ceramics are concerned. Support for this art-form gained an uptick in December 2014 with the opening of the Museo Della Ceramica, which that holds more than six centuries of significant ceramics.

The museum is housed in the Palazzo del Monte de Pieta, which was built by Pope Sixtus IV in 1479. It has been restored and renovated to serve as the ceramics museum, the restoration project owing its success to Armellino & Poggio Architetti Associati, Studio di Architettura Fallucca and architect Marco Ricchebono. I present a diverse array of subjects relating to Italy here on The Diary of Improvateur so if you’d like to read about other angles that have caught my eye, click on the tag and you will find all of the posts relating to Italy there