The northwestern edge of the historic centre, along Calle 18 Poniente and the streets around it, is where Puebla's Talavera pottery tradition is most concentrated. Half a dozen workshops and showrooms can be visited in an afternoon, ranging from large operations with structured factory tours (like the nearby Uriarte, founded 1824) to small family studios where a single potter and a couple of painters produce a limited output of exceptionally fine pieces.
The street itself is worth examining as you walk: many building facades in this part of the city carry Talavera tile decorations — blue-and-white geometric panels, portraits of saints, floral borders — applied to house fronts in a tradition that dates from the 16th century. These tiles are not decorative additions but original features of the colonial architecture. Even if you have no intention of buying, an hour walking through this area gives a good sense of how deeply the pottery tradition is embedded in the city's physical fabric.