Carrara marble is a type of white or blue grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor.
Marble di carrara.
Marble caves of carrara diferents caves located in this well known city not so far from pisa in italy.
Cantera di colonata a real cave at free air where you can see where the marble stones are.
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Various shapes and undulating surface texture add visual intrigue to these materials.
We came here to visit any of the caves and we could enter in two of them.
In addition to the marble quarries the city has academies of sculpture and fine arts and a museum of statuary and antiquities and a yearly marble technology fair.
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.
Marmi di carrara srl has been active in the stone sector since 1956 offering our own as well as exclusive ranges of marble granite onyx and stone products.
Marble di carrara is the pioneer and the leading stone processing company in bangladesh.
Statuario carrara and argenta.
The pantheon and trajan s column in rome are constructed of it and many sculptures of the renaissance were carved from it.
Rome the imperial capital was rebuilt using the white marbles that thousands of slaves dug worked and transported to these mountains.
They took us to several different stopping points and we saw different types of quarries.
The marina di carrara immediately to the southwest is a beach resort on the ligurian sea with port facilities for handling marble.
It was fun to ride around in the land rover.
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 famosi e pregiati decori là dove michelangelo trovò materia prima per le opere più importanti al mondo.
Carrara marble has been used since the time of ancient rome.
It is quarried in the city of carrara in the province of massa and carrara in the lunigiana the northernmost tip of modern day tuscany italy.
Our company specializes in finding rare and precious materials and supplying quality products at the best prices for project work and large scale installations.
Private tour in carrara marble quarries with 4x4 vehicles the quarry was absolutely amazing to see.