Teapot Museum

Golden Ring


You'd have to be a teapot fanatic to find this tiny museum worth the admission price, but for free you can browse the gift shop, full of beautiful tea-related merchandise made locally: copper and ceramic teapots, colourful mugs and plates and glazed tiles. (And also, of course, jars of loose-leaf tea.)


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