The marble quarries are enormous white wounds that open themselves along wild and abrupt slopes, where small men handle gigantic stone blocks. For the last2000 years here, nature and man's work daily embrace and reject each other in order to supply the raw material for architectural and artistic works that embellishthe squares, the palaces and the private buildings all over the world.
Discover a fascinating reality, a combination of fatigue and brilliance, ancient sweat and modern technology. The world of marble is notjust the excavation or processing of a stone, but the history of a territory and its population that have been synonyms of marble itself for ages.Get in touch directly with the people, places, instruments, machineries and dailygestures of an ancient knowledge.
You will be driven inside a lot of dierent, active quarries, reaching an altitude of around 1000 meters above sea level, having many stops for technicalexplanations, taking pictures and seeing every singlemoment of the excavation.Enjoy an off-roadroute along the winding roads in theColonnata Valley.Stopover inside anotherquarry and be provide with detailed explanations about the old and modern excavation systems.Transfer to an“open sky quarry”to take highlypanoramic pictures and to receive moreinformation about the quarry regulations. Then, you will be driventhrough the Miseglia Valley having astopover inside a“terraced quarry,” before visitingan amazing “underground quarry.” Return to the starting point with a stop for a tasteof the famous Lardo of Colonnata IGP.Get ready for an adventurous experience in Carrara.