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Fornace Sugaroni. Castel Viscardo (TR)
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Located in the valley of Castel Viscardo, the industrial complex produced bricks and earthenware articles. The Fornace Sugaroni is one of the most ancient in the area. On the stoke-hole there is a stone cross with the date 1685 that testifies that the brickyard was already producing in the 17th century.
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During the renovation of the complex circular and rectangular furnaces of different sizes have been discovered under the square.
It was owned by the prince Spada until circa 1920 and then purchased by Domenico Sugaroni, who had run it for a long time. The company was able to keep the traditional hand-crafted production of earthenware almost unchanged, besides renovating part of the production process, from the use of furnaces powered by naphtha (in the ‘60s) to other solutions such as the use of Hoffmann furnaces instead of the traditional pit-type kiln and the use of heated sheds for the drying process that permitted continuous production.
Since the ‘90s the Fornace Surgaroni has reached enormous dimensions, both of space occupied (it covered an area of 18.000 square metres) and production volume, becoming leader of the hand-crafted production of earthenware in Italy.
It has provided material for the repair of many national monuments such as the outer walls of the Coliseum, the roof of Palazzo Farnese, the outside of the Domus Aurea in Rome, Palazzo dei Priori in Perugia and the cloister of the convento di San Francesco in Assisi.
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