I visited an active quarry in the Apuan Alps of Carrara, Italy — home to the coveted Carrara marble. Located in Tuscany, Carrara marble is a $1 billion industry thanks to hard workers at the quarries.

Work has resumed at the Yule Marble Quarry in Marble under new ownership, ending a 10-month closure for the historic facility that has produced stone for the Lincoln Memorial and the Tomb of the ...

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Fueled by demand from gulf states, Italian marble is booming. Visit the majestic marble quarries of northern Italy. “In Italy’s most marble-rich area, known as the Apuan Alps, the abundance is surreal ...

QUERCETA DI SERAVEZZA, Italy (Reuters) – In 1517, Michelangelo climbed Mount Altissimo in Tuscany and found the marble of his dreams. It was, the Renaissance master wrote, “of compact grain, ...

CARRARA, Italy — Make sure you come prepared. You need sunglasses or the bright sun reflecting off the towering white marble walls that surround you in the mountains overlooking Carrara will blind you ...

A bitter dispute has broken out between environmental campaigners, who say the quarries above the town of Carrara are a blot on the landscape and contribute to dangerous levels of erosion, and the ...

MARBLE, Colo. – Work is under way to drive a new portal into the seam of unique white marble at Colorado Stone Quarries, Inc., in what the quarry’s administrative manager, Kimberly Perrin, said is an ...

Summer in Tuscany is full of concerts in interesting, sometimes unique places. In fact, a variety of acoustic musics like jazz, chamber and folk have proven an invaluable tool to revitalize historical ...