Atrio Earrings Matchstick Bar Corleone Chiesa San Martino Frescoes Italy Italian Orecchini 1382 Orange Stainless Steel 2 options

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WEAR A PIECE OF HISTORY!
These earrings are replicas of Frescoes from the Chiesa San Martino in Corleone Sicily Italy. My great grandmother was from Corleone and we were able to visit last year. This church was built in 1382 and the frescoes are from one of the beautiful walls. The church has had many additions and alterations throughout the centuries.

The earrings are 2.5" long and featherlight - 3gr. each. They have stainless steel pendants and surgical steel ear wire. The silver version has a 925 silver ear wire. They will come in a gift box. Reversible!

According to Wikipedia:
Pompeii (/pɒmˈpeɪ(i)/, Latin: [pɔmˈpeːjjiː]) was an ancient Roman city near modern Naples in the Campania region of Italy, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

Largely preserved under the ash, the excavated city offers a unique snapshot of Roman life, frozen at the moment it was buried[1] and providing an extraordinarily detailed insight into the everyday life of its inhabitants. It was a wealthy town, enjoying many fine public buildings and luxurious private houses with lavish decorations, furnishings and works of art which were the main attractions for the early excavators. Organic remains, including wooden objects and human bodies, were entombed in the ash and decayed away, making natural molds; and excavators used these to make plaster casts, unique and often gruesome figures from the last minutes of the catastrophe. The numerous graffiti carved on the walls and inside rooms provide a wealth of examples of the largely lost Vulgar Latin spoken colloquially, contrasting with the formal language of the classical writers.

Pompeii is a UNESCO World Heritage Site status and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors annually.[2]

After many excavation campaigns prior to 1960 had revealed most of the city but left it in decay,[3] further major excavations were banned and instead they were limited to targeted and necessary areas. In 2018 these led to new discoveries in some previously unexplored areas of the city

Wear a Piece of History!

+ Please note that some of our items will come with a tag stating "Return only accepted if tag is attached". There are no exceptions to this policy.

All my tiles are replicas made of polymer clay where the image actually becomes part of the clay through baking. No glue is used in the process. The pieces become waterproof and scratch resistant. Due to the handmade and hand shaped nature of each tile, slight variations will occur, as no two pieces are alike.

🌺ATTENTION: There is a 5% RESTOCKING fee per item PLUS a $3.50 fee for returned items.

Please feel free to email me with any questions you may have.

Thank you,
Atrio

+All items will come in a gift box ready for gift giving.
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QUESTION: Are your tiles real antique Portuguese azulejo tiles?

ANSWER: Absolutely not. In our description of each item, we try to call attention to the theft and destruction of antique Portuguese tiles. Even the tiles found in flea markets and antique stores were most likely stolen off a building during the night. We have seen entire home facades disappear during the night to thieves. Thankfully, Portugal just passed a law declaring this theft a crime. We can only hope that it will one day be enforced.

For this reason, we have no part in this despicable crime. We make our own tiles from polymer clay. Ceramic would be far too heavy for earrings and impossible to mold into the shapes we want. For the hoops, we mold the clay as thin as we can get it, so that it will look pretty inside the hoops.