We visited two quarries: Cava Querciola, number 147, and Cava Fiordichiara, number 76, which is a cave inside a mountain. Marble extraction in Carrara is done with a 5-millimeter diamond wire or ...

Throughout this entire period the mountains have hosted the most important water basin in Tuscany and an incredible degree of biodiversity. Massa-Carrara is emblematic of how exploitation by human ...

It's more than double the price of carrara marble, yet mined in the same mountains. But the key to calacatta's price is its rarity. More from Retail Michelangelo's famous "David" sculpture was ...