Marble Mines In Italy

Carrara k ə ˈ r ɑːr ə kə rar ə italian.

Marble mines in italy.

When you think of visiting italy is a carrara marble mine tour on your boomer itinerary. The city of massa in particular saw much of its plan. My strength is in the wheel. It is on the carrione river some 100 kilometres 62 mi west northwest of florence its motto is fortitudo mea in rota latin.

On a guided road trip in northern italy we told claudio of a la carte italy tours the more off the beaten path the better that s why during our stay in lucca alan and i found ourselves inside a mountain with white marble dust coating our shoes. Today italy s marble tends to move farther than it did before not just 200 miles to rome or 700 miles to london but 3 000 miles to abu dhabi and 4 000 miles to mumbai and 5 000 miles to beijing. Carrara marble has been used since the time of ancient rome and it was called the luni marble. The family created the office of marble in 1564 to regulate the marble mining industry.

You can tour some of the marble mines above carrara in a self guided car tour but to get as high into the apuan alps as we did in the picture you ll need to take a jeep tour. It s a short drive approximately 26 miles.