Knowing the Triana pottery

Description

The creation of the Triana Ceramic Center seeks to represent the history of the pottery tradition in Triana, as well as to serve as a nerve center for reception, interpretation and structuring of the visit to the neighborhood. All the elements with archaeological, anthropological and architectural significance are shown in their original context: the ovens have been restored and put into value, and the routes and relationships of the different professions that came together in the same location are preserved. The architectural proposal is organized from the enhancement of the whole, as well as others of undoubted spatial, ethnological and anthropological value. The center has two floors: the ground floor, which shows a permanent exhibition and a visit to the remains put in value for the interpretation of Sevillian ceramics; and the upper floor, a specialized documentation center, as well as a space for the interpretation and guidance of tourist itineraries in the Triana neighborhood.

Sunday, holidays and reduced hours 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Reduced hours at Easter, Fair, December 24 and 31. Ticket office and access closure: 30 minutes before the indicated times. Closed: Monday and January 1 and 6, December 25. Thursday and Good Friday.

€ 2.10 General Ticket. € 1.60 Reduced entry for: groups of more than 10 people, students from 18 to 25 years old, youth card, pensioners and over 65s. Accreditation is essential to be a beneficiary of the discount.

The Triana Ceramic Center, created in the old Santa Ana factory, located in Triana and one of the last ceramic production centers in the capital Seville, has ceramic pieces designed by Aníbal González and that decorated the monumental Plaza de España, pieces of the museum collection of the Seville City Council, works loaned by the collector Vicente Carranza, the Junta de Andalucía and the State, with a selection by the professor of art history Alfonso Pleguezuelo. Likewise, several historical ovens from the end of the s. XIX and principles of the s. XX, the water well, the clay tanks, the mineral mills, the sledgehammers or containers to store the prepared pigments, the potter's wheel, the tables for the airing of pieces and drying of molds or the board where the painters decorated the paintings. large tile panels. In all cases, they are old equipment belonging to the Santa Ana ceramic factory. Free guided tours during the regular hours of the Center in Spanish / English, prior reservation by phone: 955 474 293.