Sassuolo holds first place as the main producer of industrial ceramics in Italy. The Palazzina della Casiglia, former headquarter of the Producers’ Association, is the Documentation Centre of the Italian ceramic tiling industry. The exhibition testifies to the artistic, technological and commercial evolution of these products.
Sassuolo is also famous for the beautiful Ducal Palace which is a true gem of Northern Italian Baroque.It is richly frescoed and decorated by Jean Boulanger of France - official painter of the Este court and with whom some of the most important Bolognese portrait painters worked.
