Underground Carrara Marble Quarry

Marble caves of carrara.

Underground carrara marble quarry.

Well we drove trough it but we weren t allowed to step outside of the car and have a look around. Torano colonnata and fantiscritti. Geostructural and geomechanical setting of the carrara marble quarries apr 1995 10. In depth information about 2000 years of excavation and transportation of carrara marble in the quarry museum.

Carrara and the marble civilization the ancient romans discovered 2 000 years ago the presence of this white and shiny stone in the mountains we now call the apuan alps. Rome the imperial capital was rebuilt using the white marbles that thousands of slaves dug worked and transported to these mountains. In use since the roman times white marble from carrara is still the top material choice for discriminating sculptors interior designers and architects everywhere. Modern tunneling science and technology 2001.

It is also where michelangelo came to find his marble slabs. Carrara marble tour è lieta di offrirvi una fantastica escursione in jeep 4 4 nel bacino più spettacolare della alpi apuane alle scoperta dei marmi pregiati di carrara e della continua sfida tra l uomo e la montagna al fine di realizzare. Underground exploitation of the carrara marble. Both underground and surface quarry tours are not to be missed see 515 traveler reviews 527 candid photos and great deals for carrara italy at tripadvisor.

In the carrara marble basin three quarry areas are delimited. Altitude and to watch the working opencast marble quarries. What is so great about marble. This is a tour of carrara that you will never forget.

Last end of september i visited an underground marble quarry in vagli near carrara italy. Ride up to almost 1000 m. Fantiscritti is the most famous of the ex roman city of luni as attested by many remains found there. Visit a workshop of sculpture.

The only disadvantage of not going with a formal tour was that we were not allowed to go inside the impressive ravaccione underground quarry. Famous for its white marble the city of carrara holds a stone expo every two years that features locally quarried raw marble as well as marble products.