ceramic factory

The art of ceramics in Positano, as well as important economic activity, is an imaginative craft that captures the charm of the colors of the Amalfi Coast and, even today signed the country and the whole area in an unmistakable way. It has ancient traditions.

The origins go back probably to Tirreni, founders of Marcina, as testified by some findings occurred in Raito unfortunately destroyed in 1929-30.

The history of the Amalfi Coast is still, to some extent, related to the complex story of the Salerno, who had several production centers scattered 'everywhere. Positano had, however, the advantage, compared to inland centers, to be close to the sea, to be linked to quarry which until 1806 was a farmhouse, and take advantage of the positive aspects of the trade in Amalfi and Salerno with the world Eastern Europe that had contributed not a little to the merger of the reasons for ceramic Byzantine and Greek with the Latin world.