Pottery workshops occupy rock-cut lanes below a compact town of pale stone and working neighbourhoods.
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See passesGrottaglie. On the Taranto to Brindisi line; the ceramics quarter's kilns burrow into the ravine a 20 minute walk from the station.
The quartiere delle ceramiche's fifty workshops throw the pumo's good luck buds; the gravina's cave workshops fire on
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