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Albaicin, Granada
This Fajalauza pottery on Carretera de Murcia traces its kilns back to 1517 and is now run by the Fajalauza Foundation following the death of potter Cecilio Morales Moreno in 2022. It throws and hand-paints pitchers, sugar bowls, vases and oil pourers in the tin-glazed Granada tradition.
Best for Traditional throwing-and-painting Fajalauza ware
Granada
Cerámica Los Arrayanes was born in Granada in 1988 to preserve the city's ceramic tradition, which grew from the glazes and forms of Nasrid workshops. Its artisans trained under Agustín Morales Alguacil of Cerámica San Isidro. Each piece is shaped on the wheel or in hand-made moulds, bisque fired, painted with natural pigments and fired again at the shop on Calle Alhóndiga 16.
Best for Nasri-pattern hand-painted ceramics
Cerámica Los Arrayanes was founded in Granada in 1988 by Manuel Martín, who had entered the ceramics trade in 1974 as an apprentice at Cerámica San Isidro, then one of the city's most important workshops, before setting out on his own. The house's artisans trained under the San Isidro workshop's own master potter, Agustín Morales Alguacil, a figure regarded internationally as a leading authority on Granada's ceramic tradition, and that lineage of technique — rather than an inherited family kiln — is the foundation the workshop still builds on. The business now operates two sites: a shop in Granada's historic center on Calle de la Alhóndiga, and a production workshop and second outlet in Atarfe, a town on Granada's outskirts, where the pieces are actually thrown, fired, and hand-painted. The decorative language draws on the Nasrid aesthetic that shaped Granada's visual culture under the emirate that ruled the city from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, applied here across a range that runs from purely decorative tiles and vessels to functional commissioned work — sinks, house signage, and custom pieces for cortijos, the traditional Andalusian country estates. That range, spanning ornamental and functional ceramics alike, distinguishes Los Arrayanes from workshops that specialize narrowly in either tourist-facing decorative ware or utilitarian pottery.
Albaicin, Granada
In the Albaicin, this factory hand-paints the blue-and-green Fajalauza earthenware Granada has produced since the seventeenth century, from tiles and tableware to lamps and clocks. Pieces carry an authenticity seal and are decorated with pomegranate, bird and Alhambra-mosaic motifs.
Best for Hand-painted Fajalauza tin-glazed pottery
Ctra de Murcia, 166, Granada (the Fajalauza name and glaze style originate from the Puerta de Fajalauza in the Albaicín)
Cerámica Fajalauza is a working Granada pottery documented back to 1517 and passed down through generations of the same family, now run as a foundation after founder Cecilio Morales Moreno's death. The factory and shop sell hand-painted tableware and decorative vases in the traditional blue-and-green Fajalauza glaze, take custom commissions, and offer pottery workshops.
Best for Fajalauza-glaze tableware, vases, custom commissions and pottery workshops
Albaicín / Online
The factory and shop share a red-gated site on Granada’s Carretera de Murcia. Visitors can see a working ceramic lineage expressed in hand-painted tableware, tiles and decorative forms rather than a museum-only display.
Best for Traditional blue-and-green glazed ceramics made through Granada’s historic Fajalauza pottery tradition
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