Cappadocia Firca

Our tour group stopped at this ceramics factory shop as one of the stops. It was really cool that this family has been producing all their ceramics by hand for over 250 years. What was also cool was that from the outside it looked totally small and just a humble shop. But after entering it was a huge cave with separate showrooms, painting rooms, kiln, pottery wheels, ect; all dug into the hill side, 4500 square meters to be exact!
I think they fed us and gave us some drinks, it came with a demonstration of creating some pottery on the wheel. The person giving the tour was part of the Firca family who owned the business, he seems very nice and genuine. After some food, drinks, and a demonstration, there was a chance to buy things. Everything is 100% hand made, and they are all very beautiful, the prices are rather high but i guess anything hand mad always is. It’s just not my thing, i’m too cheap and I’d break it just the same.
A bunch of people in our group bought stuff and it seemed that the person who bought right at the end (just before the bus was about to leave) got the best deal, just do a bit of haggling.
Even though i didn’t buy anything, it was really neat to see such beautiful works being hand made by one family for so many years and the cave it all takes place in was cool too. No, really cool, outside was almost 90º inside was a cool 75º.
Don’t bring kids, im sure there’s a you break it you bought it policy and some of the really high end decorative pieces were $ 16,000 for a plate! I was a little afraid to touch anything cause i didn’t want to break anything.