hollow of marble Cararra - Discover Cararra

The marble is one limestone cliff to formed crystalline structure for metamorfismo. The Alps Apuane are an immense marmifero giacimento, of some km volume cubes, whose consisting heap more is that one than Carrara. Here the excavation has been developed in three valleys, Colonnata, Fantiscritti and Ravaccione, where beyond to the ordinary white man other marble varieties are extracted: statuary, veined, paonazzo, calacata, bardiglio. The extractive activity has remote origins (II sec. a.C.). It was upgraded from the Roman who usarano widely the marble "lunense" in order to construct to villas and monuments, even if the true marmorea industry had the real development during the period of the Doctors, period in which marbles extracted from the hollow carrarine they came uses you for enrich the architectonic constructions of Florence. Later on, it is continued with alternate fortunes until the industrial development of the past century. From then it has been developed constantly until puts into effect them production of approximately 800 mila tonn. annual with techniques, materials and tools that come continuously it perfects to you, improving the job conditions and placing Carrara to the vanguard of the field. In the sawmills and the laboratories the marble comes then cut, polished and modeled in order to realize coverings and sculptures it sendes to you all over the world. The visit to hollow, the reachable ones with comfortable asphalted roads, is concurred with the due attentions. The arrogant and fascinating vision of the wide river basins, of the strained white women of the ravaneti, the titanic work of the man, leaves in the visitor a indelible memory. Michelangelo Buonarroti, Canova, Donatello and Brunelleschi, are only some of the names of illustrious artists who personally oed near the hollow ones of marble that they encircle Carrara. The hollow ones that, like perpetual snow, whitens the flanks of the Alps Apuane.