The marble quarries, enormous white wounds that open themselves along wild and abrupt slopes, where small men handle gigantic stone blocks. For the last 2000 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 embellish the squares, the palaces, and the private buildings all over the world.
We wish to let you know a different and fascinating reality, a combination of fatigue and brilliance, ancient sweat and modern technology. The world of marble is not just 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. The quarries, the techiniques and the history as well as the quarrymen's villages, their thousand-year habits and customs, their language thier food and everyday life.
Our guided tours to the marble quarries, sculpture studios, marble workshops will allow you, in absolute safety, to get in touch directly with the people, places, instruments, machinaries and daily gestures of ancient knowledge.
To know more about it click on one of the sections below.
The option "The world of Carrara marble" allows a wider approach at the knowledge of the marble civilization. |
The option "Marble quarries on 4x4 off road vehicle" is for who is searching something really unique and exclusive, it is a once in a lifetime experience! |
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Cave di marmo tours - Powered by Il Tau Guide turistiche - Viale G. Galilei, 40 - Carrara (MS) - Tuscany - Italy
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