For 132 years Ceramica Vincente Pascal has been on the corner of Calle Bazan and Avenida Alfonzo El Sabio. The unusual combination of a herbalism and ceramics shop began with Pepe Pascual’s great grandfather, a herbalist. His great-grandmother was a potter. They opened their doors in 1893 and lived over the store. The small rooms and crowded shelves of the shop reflect the layout of their upstairs apartment, still there today.
There are flower pots, albarelos (apothecary jars,) decorative plates, functional jugs, holy water fonts, vases of every size and aspect, botijos (double-spouted jugs for cooling water,) and albahaqueros (traditional air freshener pots) lining the shelves. Every inch of the store is covered in pots.
This celebration of shapes and colors held us there. We are going back.
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