The first of the tourist attraction of Sacel is the center of unenamelled red ceramics polished with stones, based on techniques from the Neolithic Age, survived in this Maramures village. Thus, the technique and the aesthetics of this type of ceramics undoubtedly prove that it had been used by the Dacians 2000 years ago, and that it was burnt in a Roman oven.
The pottery centre is located in the household of late Tanase Cocean. The procedure and the technique were transmitted from generations and today his adopted son and his nephew practice this millenary craft. Just like any special thing, the red ceramics was got from a special kind of clay manually dug from a single place 10 metres deep under the ground. Then the clay is taken to a workshop and transformed with different tools. In the picture the 300 years-old Roman oven used by 8 generations of potters.