Well we drove trough it but we weren t allowed to step outside of the car and have a look around.
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.
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.
What is so great about marble.
Last end of september i visited an underground marble quarry in vagli near carrara italy.
Modern tunneling science and technology 2001.
Among the fascinating experiences you will get a panoramic view of the quarries as well as a visit of the carrara underground.
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.
Torano colonnata and fantiscritti.
This is a tour of carrara that you will never forget.
Altitude and to watch the working opencast marble quarries.
Ride up to almost 1000 m.
In the carrara marble basin three quarry areas are delimited.
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.
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.
Geostructural and geomechanical setting of the carrara marble quarries apr 1995 10.
Rome the imperial capital was rebuilt using the white marbles that thousands of slaves dug worked and transported to these mountains.
Visit a workshop of sculpture.
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In depth information about 2000 years of excavation and transportation of carrara marble in the quarry museum.
Free time for the eventual visit to marble souvenir shops.