The History of Umbrian and Tuscan Terraco

Brick has such ancient origins that they merge with those of man, and come to us today unchanged in their form but evolved in technology.

We can find evidence from around the sixth millennium BC of the first rudimentary handmade bricks used unfired for the first constructions.
The Greeks once covered sacred buildings with terracotta. Roman architecture used almost exclusively bricks, terracotta flooring and special pieces for all its building components. Later, in the Gothic era, terracotta, greatly technically and aesthetically improved, was used to make grand cathedrals, in spectacular combinations with stone.

The year was 1250 AC... In its act of submission to Perugia (Guelph), the then "Castel di Pieve" (Ghibellina and rebels) was obliged by decree to provide the City of the Griffin as much flooring terracotta as was necessary for paving the square of its City Hall, and so it was.... Since then, between history and legend, Perugia started to use this mainly Sienese tradition material for the production of hollow flat tiles and flat tiles.

While, the now "Città della Pieve", bridgehead between Umbria and Tuscany, has emerged as one of the largest producers of terracotta...at a distance of about 8 centuries, history seems to have stood still. Umbrian and Tuscan terracotta is used in construction for the creation of antique terracotta floors, hollow flat tiles, flat tiles, steps, strip tiles, pool sides and, more generally, terracotta for interiors and outdoor furnishings.