The majestic marble quarries of northern italy.
Marble quarries of northern italy.
A look at how the stone is wrenched from the earth.
Marble quarries located at the top of the mountains form the background of the town of carrara.
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.
The serpentine road of torano s marble valley credit luca locatelli institute for the new york times.
Due to the way in which the marble is taken the large spaces the symmetrical precision of the excavations and the shape of the worktops the mountains have been transformed into.
What we admire as pristine white stone was born hundreds of millions of years ago in overwhelming darkness.
The marble quarries of northern italy are famous around the world and they are so impressive says locatelli who is based in milan.
This is where the famous marble has been excavated since roman times.