Underground Carrara Marble Quarry

Modern tunneling science and technology 2001.

Underground carrara marble quarry.

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. It is also where michelangelo came to find his marble slabs. Free time for the eventual visit to marble souvenir shops. 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.

Ride up to almost 1000 m. 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 exploitation of the carrara marble. Visit a workshop of sculpture.

In depth information about 2000 years of excavation and transportation of carrara marble in the quarry museum. Rome the imperial capital was rebuilt using the white marbles that thousands of slaves dug worked and transported to these mountains. Well we drove trough it but we weren t allowed to step outside of the car and have a look around. This is a tour of carrara that you will never forget.

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. What is so great about marble. 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. Torano colonnata and fantiscritti.

In the carrara marble basin three quarry areas are delimited. Fantiscritti is the most famous of the ex roman city of luni as attested by many remains found there. Last end of september i visited an underground marble quarry in vagli near carrara italy. 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. Marble caves of carrara.