A millenaria tradition, tied deeply to the history of Caltagirone is the presence of generations of craftsmen and artists who interpreted in an originali way the capability of thè ceramics to create shapes and colors, a ductile instrument so to give substance to the creative fantasy. The influence determined by thè commercial contacts between Sicilian, that inhabited the ancient territory of Caltagirone, and the Greek world shows its effects not just in thè social organization, but also in thè handicraft activity of the production of pottery. An historical evidence of such a statement is represented by the use of the lathe, that the local people of Caltagirone, around year 1000 B.C., learned from the Cretans thus revolutionizing the ancient artisan activity of the ceramics that for several thousands of years had conserved unchanged its own techniques of production.