Marble Quarries and Carrara (Auto)

Carrara is the world capital city of marble and owns its fortune to this stone, that has been digged since 2000 years ago from the Apuan Alps that crown the city. The town is located halfway between the shore and the three marble extracting valleys of Torano, Fantiscritti and Colonnata, along which more than one-hundred currently working quarries are situated.

The Carrara marble, famous worldwide, is still nowadays extracted from the marble quarries of the Apuan Alps. The quarries show a unique world and landscape, almost moon-like, suspended between the sea and the mountains' peaks.