Carrara Marble Quarries Guided Tours

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Carrara marble quarries guided tours.

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. This is a much higher point than you are allowed to drive to on your own. Food and wine tours to savor the local specialties. During our carrara marble quarries tour.

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. Carrara marble tour takes you on a fascinating ride through the quarries for a close look at the marble cliffs and mines. 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. Visit the marble quarries on 4 4 off road vehicle is a unique and profound experience.

Private tours of the carrara marble quarries the world s largest marble excavation area. The view is unique with the alps and the coast in the same picture. We will drive up to an altitude of 900 m. You can tour some of the marble mines above carrara in a self guided car tour but to get as high into the apuan alps as we did in the picture you ll need to take a jeep tour.

The marble quarries enormous white wounds that open themselves along wild and abrupt slopes where small men handle gigantic stone. Carrara the marble built town recently included in the unesco list for creative cities for marble crafts. Tourist guide services in carrara marble quarries guided walks of carrara town center and of the marble workshops. Guided visit to know more about michelangelo s preferred marble by visiting.

From there the scenery will be breathtaking. A guided tour to the marble quarries in carrara is a must visit in northern tuscany. 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. Near the top you ll get out and enjoy a spectacular view of the quarries the city of carrara and the coast.

The history of the marble quarries in carrara stretches back to ancient rome. Private tours in the cinque terre florence and tuscany. Carrara marble quarries guided tours by 4x4 vehicles with. Every days 24 7 39 0585 625112.

The carrara marble quarries the workshops of sculpture. Take a guided tour through the massive underground caverns and open air quarries and see where this stone has been mined for centuries. 4 4 off road trip in tuscany you will enjoy an incredible view over the apuan alps and the marble caves. 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.