Few towns lend their name to an art across half of Europe: "faïence" in French, "faience" in English — tin-glazed earthenware is named for Faenza, which has worked it since the Middle Ages and never stopped. The MIC, the International Museum of Ceramics founded in 1908, is the world's largest of its kind — Picasso and Chagall to Hispano-Moresque jars — while dozens of town workshops keep the wheel turning.
Piazza del Popolo with its double loggias and the Palio del Niballo joust each June complete a lively, concrete Romagna city — one that met its recent floods the way Romagna does: sleeves rolled up.
Near Faenza
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
