If there is a place that is synonymous with marble that is Carrara. Who has not ever heard of the good and expensive carrara marble? Well, it is a type of marble that comes from the quarries of Carrara, an Italian city that is located in the north of Tuscany, on the Ligurian Sea and in front of the Apuan Alps.
Carrara is an Alpine city with varied and very beautiful landscapes all and it is precisely this mountainous geography that makes it famous, since it is from the mountain quarries that for centuries the best marble in the world has been extracted. Centuries ago Carrara was a Roman colony and its importance already lay in its marble. Conquered by the Romans, this town has never given up or abandoned its own identity. And despite the continuous exploitation of the Carrara quarries, there is still marble to be extracted.
Un walk through Carrara It is mandatory to visit the Plaza Alberica whose cobbled floor has some marble inlays, the Carrara Cathedral in the Romanesque style, the Civic Museum of Marble with everything related to the extraction of the stone and the archeology of the area and the Bridges of Vara. Sculpture is one of the queens of this city and there are numerous workshops and exhibitions. If you go in August it is better because a special typical event takes place that shows how marble blocks were transported in ancient times. Is named Historical Review of the Lizzatura.
In total there are seven varieties of Carrara marble, each one has a distinctive structure and color: there is white marble, the most classic and purest, there is Venado marble, greyish white, arabesque marble, statuary marble, ivory white in color and ideal for chiselling, Bardiglio marble, gray in color. and Cipollino Zerbino marble, with greenish gray veins.
Source - Official Portal of Tourism in Italy
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