Nove

Nove stands on the Brenta river, a few kilometres from Bassano del Grappa, and has been known for over three hundred years as the...

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Nove stands on the Brenta river, a few kilometres from Bassano del Grappa, and has been known for over three hundred years as the city of ceramics. Ceramic production began here in the eighteenth century, when in 1727-1728 Giovanni Battista Antonibon, following legislative action by the Venetian Republic, set up a workshop that would become one of Europe's leading ceramic manufactures. The location along the Isacchina stream, combined with the availability of clay and calcareous and siliceous pebbles, provided ideal raw materials, while the waterways powered mills and allowed timber to be transported for the kilns, elements that together allowed a ceramic district of European standing to develop. Today the Museo Civico della Ceramica, housed since 1995 in the eighteenth-century Palazzo De Fabris, holds more than two thousand pieces of majolica, terracotta and porcelain, while numerous artisan workshops in the historic centre keep a tradition alive that is still practised daily, not simply preserved behind glass.

Updated 12 July 2026 · Sources: https://www.museonove.it/il-novecento-2/ · https://visitnove.it/ · https://www.culturaveneto.it/it/web/cultura/museo-civico-della-ceramica-di-nove · https://www.viart.it/blog/ceramica-nove-bassano-storia-eccellenze-artigiane/

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The story

The story of Nove

On the Brenta, next to Bassano

Nove lies along the course of the Brenta, a short distance from Bassano del Grappa, in a position that for centuries has favoured trade and the transport of raw materials needed for ceramic working.

The origins of ceramics in Nove

Nove's ceramic tradition began in 1727-1728, when Giovanni Battista Antonibon, following legislative action by the Venetian Republic, set up a workshop that would become one of Europe's leading ceramic manufactures, launching over three hundred years of uninterrupted production.

The Museo Civico della Ceramica

Opened in 1995 in the eighteenth-century Palazzo De Fabris, the museum holds more than two thousand pieces of decorated majolica, terracotta and porcelain, tracing three centuries of local ceramic production, from the earliest eighteenth-century manufactures to contemporary work.

Artisan workshops and a living tradition

In the centre of Nove, numerous artisan workshops continue to produce ceramics using traditional techniques, making the town a place where visitors can observe up close a craft still practised daily, not only preserved in a museum.

Nove and Bassano, twin capitals

Nove shares with nearby Bassano del Grappa the leading role in Venetian ceramics: Bassano in turn has its own ceramics museum, housed in Palazzo Sturm, and together the two towns form a single artisan district of European standing.