Carrara Marble Quarries Guided Tours

The history of the marble quarries in carrara stretches back to ancient rome.

Carrara marble quarries guided tours.

It is a unique experience to see where the white precious stone is cut out from the mountain. Guided tours of pontremoli and castles of lunigiana tourist guide to massa historic center. We will drive up to an altitude of 900 m. Near the top you ll get out and enjoy a spectacular view of the quarries the city of carrara and the coast.

Carrara marble quarry tours the pure white marble from carrara s quarries has been used since roman times for everything from landmarks like the pantheon to renaissance sculptures like michelangelo s david. Guided visit to know more about michelangelo s preferred marble by visiting. Visit the marble quarries on 4 4 off road vehicle is a unique and profound experience. Take a guided tour through the massive underground caverns and open air quarries and see where this stone has been mined for centuries.

Tourist guide services in carrara marble quarries guided walks of carrara town center and of the marble workshops. The marble quarries enormous white wounds that open themselves along wild and abrupt slopes where small men handle gigantic stone. From there the scenery will be breathtaking. Touring the marble mines in the apuan alps in northern tuscany is an incredible visual experience which is why the location was chosen for the chase scene in the james bond film quantum of solace.

For the last 2000 years here nature and man s work daily embrace and reject each other in order to supply the raw material for. Tours and guided visits at the carrara marble quarries excursions on 4x4 off road vehicles walking tours of carrara historical center sculpture studios and marble workshops. 4 4 off road trip in tuscany you will enjoy an incredible view over the apuan alps and the marble caves. Private tours of the carrara marble quarries the world s largest marble excavation area.

It means to enjoy the charm of places inaccessible for most of the visitors travelling along winding and steep roads together with trucks which incessantly challenge technical and human limits. During our carrara marble quarries tour. Private tours in the cinque terre florence and tuscany. Carrara marble tour takes you on a fascinating ride through the quarries for a close look at the marble cliffs and mines.

The view is unique with the alps and the coast in the same picture. Every days 24 7 39 0585 625112. Carrara the marble built town recently included in the unesco list for creative cities for marble crafts. Food and wine tours to savor the local specialties.

Carrara marble quarries guided tours by 4x4 vehicles with. This is a much higher point than you are allowed to drive to on your own. A short break in order to experience an antique and absolutely unique food the lardo di colonnata and we start to go up and up again until 1 200. The carrara marble quarries the workshops of sculpture.