Carrara marble is marble par excellence. It is extracted in Carrara, a small city famous for its landscape dominated by white mountains characterized by open -air marble basins, located along the coast of northern Tuscany. The first to appreciate the artistic and commercial aspect of Carrara marble were the Romans, who used it for the construction of imperial buildings or for the construction of statues from the first century AC the marble industry, however, reached its maximum prestige towards the end of the fifteenth century with the arrival of great personalities of the Renaissance. The landscape of the Carrara quarries is the consequence of the interaction between man and territory, from the original natural conditions of a few white rocks it has reached the present day with an imposi.
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