In recent years the quarries of Carrara have had an annual aggregate output of about 200,000 tons. They supply the bulk of the marble used in Italy and Europe to-day for sculpture and other ...

Marble has been carved here since the Ancient Roman times, and because of its millennial history, the Carrara quarries have produced more marble than any other place on Earth. The market as a ...

The stone extracted from outside the nearby city of Carrara, including from the white marble quarry in the image below, is widely regarded as the purest and most valuable in the world. Before ...

So much so that even the famed statue of David by Michelangelo in nearby Florence is made of Carrara marble. Consisting of over 150 quarries, the marble mountains of Carrara are truly a sight to ...

Spent eight months in the quarries of Carrara selecting marble for the tomb 1505-1545 Michelangelo worked on the tomb of Julius II on and off, in both Rome and Florence, carved Moses, the ...