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 ...

Last year, 1.2 million tons of blocks crossed the Italian border to China ... and because of its millennial history, the Carrara quarries have produced more marble than any other place on Earth.

The marble extraction basin of the ... twentieth century has marked the identity of the quarry and the territory of Carrara as the cradle of Italian anarchism. There is a historical and political ...

At the foot of striking marble quarries in central Italy's Apuan Alps sits the village ... The stone extracted from outside the nearby city of Carrara, including from the white marble quarry ...