This is the most important ceramic centre in Romania, permanent exhibitions being housed by the ceramist artisans’ workshops.  Alongside the Hurezi Monastery, it is the emblem of the locality, the symbolic force of the Horezu pottery receiving the confirmation of its value through its including on the UNESCO Immaterial Heritage List in December 2012.

The craft of working the clay was transmitted through the ages by the families of ceramists who managed to keep it alive in the ancestral village hearth, now known as “Olari street”. On the main street of the village there are 18 ceramists’ workshops, where the artisans mould the clay with the same unparalleled craftsmanship as their ancestors. Being endowed with an exceptional creative vitality, Horezu has an almost unique situation among the Romanian ceramic centres, because here this craft represents the main income source of the descendants of the famous families of ceramists: Ogrezeanu, Vicşoreanu, Iorga, Buclescu, Mischiu, Popa, in the conditions of a modern society undergoing permanent change.

Nowadays, Horezu ceramic centre continues to be a true melting pot of the Romanian ceramic creation, preserving the defining elements of the pottery produced here, but, through the infinite gamut of the chromatic and decorative compositions, conferring an unexpected personality and expressiveness to every piece. The Olari centre produces a type of pottery having its own unitary character, well-defined through its shape, decorations, technique and colours (bowls, plates, pots, pitchers, cups of various sizes, for home or decorative use).

Source: Promotion and Tourist Information Centre Horezu