Among the attractions most admired today in Camaguey for tourism, is the culture and tradition of pottery, reflected in several parts and spaces of the known as the Cuban city of the Tinajones.

For one of the most recognized artists in the city with several exhibitions in galleries of the Nazario Salazar Historical Heritage Center, camagüeyana clay begins to work early, in 1516 the first potter enters the once Villa, from Europe came willing potters', as cited the digital page of the Office of the Historian.

The specialist says that the manufacture of crockery not only served for the consumption of the inhabitants of the Villa del Puerto del Príncipe, 'because copies were also exported over time, including the tinajón, thanks to the peculiarities of the mud material that adjoined with the rivers'.

The most recent versions and styles of pottery have even reached this town, which has hosted the International Symposium of Artistic Ceramics Port-au-Prince, an event attended by academics and artists from different parts of the country to preserve this rich tradition.

Founded in 1514, the former Villa also has space for the International Hall of Artistic Ceramics, with exhibitions of dozens of works from more than 20 countries and showing the results of previous editions of the Symposium.

Camagüey has also hosted the Mud and Fire Festival, where different artists have shown the most genuine pottery, cultural expression of deep roots in the heritage and tradition of a city whose eclectic architecture stands out among its contemporaries in Cuba, object of recess for visitors you receive annually.