Toscano Roof Tiles

CoorItalia Architectural Elements Division offers Italian Roof Tiles that come in a variety of tones, as well as a variety of sizes and shapes.

Barrel clay tiles (also known, in the USA, as Mission roof tiles) are the vast majority of installations throughout Italy. These installations call for two barrel terracotta tiles to be used on top (called a “Cap”) and one on the bottom (called a “Pan”). A second kind of installation is called the Roman Pan system. This is popular in the central Italian regions of Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio, and, as a pan uses a flat tile with raised edges that then catch the familiar barrel cap. It is also used in the southern regions of Italy.

We supply reclaimed antique terracotta roof tiles from three areas of Italy as each have their color and/or color characteristics. The tiles we source tend to be 100 or more years old. The sizes and color of the reclaimed roof tiles are very random and mixed. They were hand made sometimes using people legs to shape them, sometimes using molds where each local artisan had his own mold. Therefore the irregularity in sizes is to be considered a characteristic.