Ancient Grazia Furnace

At the entrance to the historic centre, near the Sant'Angelo gate, stands a beautifully preserved Renaissance kiln from the 16th century - used by the Grazia company, the oldest ceramic firm in Deruta. The Grazia family donated the building to the municipality; today it serves as tourist reception and cultural venue.

Municipal Art Gallery

The 14th-century Palazzo dei Consoli houses Deruta's art gallery. Key works include the Affresco by Perugino and the Madonna dei Consoli (1457) by Niccolo di Liberatore. The upper floor holds the Leone Pascoli collection - around forty paintings donated in 1931, including works by Baciccio, Trevisani, Panini, and Van Bloemen.

Church of San Francesco

Home to a spectacular painting of St Catherine of Alexandria - patron saint of ceramists - by Lorenzo Fonda. The chapel of the Madonna del Rosario contains a beautiful majolica altar by Angelo Micheletti (1899). A fresco from 1520 depicts the Virgin with Saints Francis and Bernardino. Inside is also a bell cast in 1228 for the canonisation of St Francis of Assisi.

Deruta celebrates St Catherine's feast on 25 November - workshops close and artisans gather for a shared meal.

Regional Museum of Ceramics

The oldest Italian museum specialised in ceramics, founded in 1898 inside a 14th-century Franciscan convent. Four exhibition levels hold six thousand five hundred artifacts tracing the full history of Deruta's tradition.

An underground tunnel connects the museum to the ancient kilns of San Salvatore, discovered in 2008. Excavations uncovered structures dating from the late 1200s to the early 1700s - seven centuries of ceramic production in a single site.

Church of Sant'Antonio Abate

Rich with frescoes by Bartolomeo Caporali and his son Giovanni Battista. Bartolomeo's Madonna of Mercy - painted during a time of plague - shows the medieval Deruta skyline at the bottom, a rare historical document in paint. Giovanni Battista painted scenes from the life of Saint Anthony Abbot on the back wall. The glazed terracotta statue at the centre dates from 1553.

Panoramic Gardens

A hilltop garden with a sweeping view of the Umbrian countryside, furnished entirely with Deruta ceramic tables and benches - the perfect spot to pause mid-visit. At the centre stands a monument by sculptor Torquato Tamagnini, in memory of the victims of the First World War.