I visited an active quarry in the Apuan Alps of Carrara — home to the coveted Carrara marble. The port's unique landscape and history, paired with a lack of crowds, make it a hidden gem.

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 ...

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 ...

Located less than an hour’s drive from Camp Darby, Carrara is renowned for its marble quarries and rich artistic heritage. In fact, Michaelangelo’s famed statue, The David, was carved from ...

Over the past 30 years, more marble has been extracted than during the previous two millennia. From the port of Marina di Carrara, a few kilometres from the quarries, it is shipped across the globe.

The stone extracted from outside the nearby city of Carrara, including from the white marble quarry in the image below, is ...

That marble in Carrara is the best marble in the world ... why wouldn’t I use the best material? When I go into the quarry, there’s all these giant machines, these tall ladders that are ...

The Ligier black marble quarries, discovered in 1909 three miles south of the town of Dragoon, were considered comparable in quality to the famous Carrara marble quarries of Italy. Discoverer and ...

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.