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.

Underground carrara marble quarry.

What is so great about marble. In depth information about 2000 years of excavation and transportation of carrara marble in the quarry museum. In the carrara marble basin three quarry areas are delimited. Modern tunneling science and technology 2001.

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. Rome the imperial capital was rebuilt using the white marbles that thousands of slaves dug worked and transported to these mountains. 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. Altitude and to watch the working opencast marble quarries. Geostructural and geomechanical setting of the carrara marble quarries apr 1995 10. 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.

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. 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. Fantiscritti is the most famous of the ex roman city of luni as attested by many remains found there. Free time for the eventual visit to marble souvenir shops.

Marble caves of carrara. Last end of september i visited an underground marble quarry in vagli near carrara italy. 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.

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. Ride up to almost 1000 m.