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Carrara marble, or Luna marble (marmor lunense) to the Romans, is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It has been quarried since Roman times in the mountains just outside the city of Carrara in the province of Massa and Carrara in the Lunigiana , the northernmost tip of modern-day Tuscany , Italy.
Marble Quarry in the Massa and Carrara region "Carrara" (Marble), in The Monumental News Magazine, March 1893, pp. 273-275. "The Carrara Marble Industry," Scientific American Supplement, May 17, 1902, pp. 22045–22046. "A Marble World" (Carrara, Italy), by E. St. John Hart, article in Pearson's Magazine, February 1903; Landsat 7 photograph of ...
BI's reporter took a Mediterranean cruise and found a hidden-gem port stop in Italy: Marina di Carrara, where she toured active marble quarries. I stopped at a Mediterranean port where few cruise ...
The Marble Basin of Carrara: Massa-Carrara: 2006 ii, vi, vii, viii, ix, x (mixed) High-quality marble was extracted from the Apuan Alps around Carrara already in the Roman times and there are several quarry sites from the Renaissance period. Technical heritage from different periods related to marble has been preserved as well. [87]
Colonnata is located in the Apuan Alps (mounts Maggiore, Spallone and Sagro), and is accessible by the road that passes through the villages of Vezzala and Bedizzano.. The village is surrounded by quarries in an area known as "Gioia Calagio", which includes the Gioia Pit, which produces the arabescato and bardiglio varieties of veined marble.
Wunsiedel Marble; In Italy: Carrara, source of white marble including the block from which Michelangelo's David was carved; In Kosovo: Çikatovë e Vjeter; Korroticë e Epërme; In Russia Ruskeala; In the United Kingdom See Category:Quarries in the United Kingdom; In the United States:
Carrara marble being mined in the Apuan Alps. The chain formed out of sea sediments in the middle Triassic period, somewhat earlier than the rest of the Apennines, and on a rather different geological structure. [1] Over time, these sediments hardened into limestone, dolomite, sandstone, and shale. [1]
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