Men have always looked for ways to protect themselves from the severity of the weather, from the cold and the rain.
At first they sheltered in caves, but soon they acquired the knowledge necessary to build their own shelters and then to cover them, they used a multitude of things, branches, bark, leaves from trees, pieces of slate and boards...
From the most remote times men discovered the virtues of fired clay, moulded in small curved pieces, which could fit one inside the other and completely prevented leaking water. They were also easy to manufacture and transport.
Tiles have always given and continue giving their name to the roofs of buildings.
