Underground Carrara Marble Quarry

In use since the roman times white marble from carrara is still the top material choice for discriminating sculptors interior designers and architects everywhere.

Underground carrara marble quarry.

Carrara is considered as one of the best marble types in the world and many of the ancient monuments across italy and europe are made from here. Marble caves of carrara. The only disadvantage of not going with a formal tour was that we were not allowed to go inside the impressive ravaccione underground quarry. Altitude and to watch the working opencast marble quarries.

Among the fascinating experiences you will get a panoramic view of the quarries as well as a visit of the carrara underground. It is also where michelangelo came to find his marble slabs. Fantiscritti is the most famous of the ex roman city of luni as attested by many remains found there. Modern tunneling science and technology 2001.

Visit a workshop of sculpture. Ride up to almost 1000 m. 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. Well we drove trough it but we weren t allowed to step outside of the car and have a look around.

Rome the imperial capital was rebuilt using the white marbles that thousands of slaves dug worked and transported to these mountains. 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. Torano colonnata and fantiscritti.

Free time for the eventual visit to marble souvenir shops. What is so great about marble. In the carrara marble basin three quarry areas are delimited. 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.

In depth information about 2000 years of excavation and transportation of carrara marble in the quarry museum. Underground exploitation of the carrara marble.