 Situated about 15 minutes from the guest house.
During the Renaissance, Montelupo was one of the major centres of ceramic production at Italian and European level.
Its history began at the end of the thirteenth century with the production of articles decorated in Hispanic-Moorish style (blue motifs and prevalently green decorative work). From then on, for over three centuries, the kilns multiplied within the city walls (built in the mid fourteenth century) to over 50 at the end of the fifteenth century.
In about the mid fifteenth century, Montelupo became instrumental in the circulation of techniques and knowledge that characterised that period of history. Artists from Montelupo went to work in the towns of Faenza and Cafaggiolo, and the presence of potters from Montelupo is also documented in Caltagirone where they boosted the local pottery traditions that still continue today.
Pieces of Montelupo pottery have been discovered in archaeological sites in Central America connected to the first European settlements in that area and also in the Philippines and Scotland.
Places to visit include the Montelupo Archaeology and Pottery Museum.
For golf enthusiasts there is a 9-hole course nearby in Fibbiana.
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