The rise of Paterna's pottery Historical milestone · Paterna, L'Horta Nord, Valencia Image of Paterna, not of the place itself. The town's potteries were between the 12th and 15th centuries one of the great ceramic centers of the peninsula, with blue and green earthenware and the socarrats, painted clay plaques that decorated the ceilings of houses. siglos XIII al XV Photo: No machine-readable author provided. MaeseCarpin~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims). (CC BY-SA 2.5) What to see and do in Paterna