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Sample Sculptures at the Museum
BruceDunning Says: There are some wonderful sculptures at the museum entrance and surrounding area. These are a couple that are impressive of the dozen or so around the top
BruceDunning Says: In the old Roman times they used slaves, and probably many of them, because they then chiseled the stone out of the facing. In later times, Italians used wood wedges to insert into the rock and then wet them. That would split the rock from the pressure. That method continued...
The museum and top of mountain
BruceDunning Says: This is a real surreal and huge mountain, and was first called Luna-for moon in Apuan Alps. You could get run off the narrow winding road if not careful from a fast moving truck hauling the marble down the mountain. The magnificent views at the top are well worth the trip....
BruceDunning Says: The process of cutting out a large piece of marble is time consuming and takes a lot of preparation work. They now use more intricate methods of slicing the blocks out of the mountain by using precision blasts, and wedge blocks and cutters. In the past the blast was the...
BruceDunning Says: The road is winding and in some spots rather nervy to drive. The curves to go up the mountain side are wide in some areas, and more narrow in others. The trucks are coming downhill. Also loclas walk along side the road, or are on bikes.
BruceDunning Says: This bridge is one of two that go into the mountain. WE went around past the museum on one road. It winds back through many narrow roads and eventually ends up at the bottom of the mountain. It is connecting to a point where the drive up started. This is a nice drive, but be...
lashr1999 Says: Take a tour of the Cararra Marble quarry and view some of the marble sculptures along the way. There is a gift shop selling cheap marble goods. Many people liked the marble chess sets.
Museo De Fanta Scritti - Marble Quarry
Princess-Kitten Says: I know...a marble quarry! Sounds dull, huh? Not a bit of it!Run by a lovely man, Walter Danesi, it is a little 'garden' of all sorts of marble sculptures, carved from the local mountains which surround you on every side. There's a cave which you can visit as part of a tour...
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hotel Carrara: right next to the train station
paragianna75 Says: Not fancy from outside but with clean rooms with "heavy" decoration and an excellent breakfast. Everyone that was taking breakfast in this hotel was leaving with a bag full of fruits, juices, a bottle of mineral water and sandwich.I heard that maybe its a tradition in these...
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The road can be treachuous. The trucks carrying marble down the mountain do take a wide turn on the curves, while the road itself has blind spots when turning the zig zag going uphill. You do not always see the traffic coming down until you are close to the having to make a decison to get off to the edge of the road. Also the drop off in some areas can be a great view, or precarious if you re too close to the edge.
Written Nov 2, 2007
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Cararra Marble Quarry, this is north of La Spezia but before Parma.
The mines have supplied marble since Roman times. The scupltor Michelangelo used Carrara marble for his 'David' masterpiece.
Written Aug 24, 2002
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They keep digging out sections of the mountain. After all these years, apparently there is still more to dig. About 300,000 square meters are carved out yearly. Franco Barattini owns the three active...
Cararra is the home of pure white marble quarries. This site has been in use for over 2000 years since the Roman era. It is a wonder marble is still being quarried after all these years. Here,...
Close up of Cararra Marble Quarry
These mines have supplied marble since Roman times. The scupltue Michelangelo used Carrara marble for his famous works of art.
A picture from the road to Miseglia (outside Carrara on the way into the Apuan mountains) of the Arco Arte sculpture studio where I trained for two weeks.
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