Italy Marble Mountains

Sit on a beach in one of the nearby towns forte dei marmi viareggio and you appear to be looking up at.

Italy marble mountains.

You just need to look up and see the uncovered mountains of the apuan alps. 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. The pantheon and trajan s column in rome are constructed of it and many sculptures of the renaissance were carved from it. Carrara marble has been used since the time of ancient rome.

The taj mahal is entirely clad in marble. The carrara quarries have produced more marble than any other. It s there the origin of statues monuments and buildings. In addition to the marble quarries the city has academies of sculpture and fine arts and a museum of statuary and antiquities and a yearly marble technology fair.

Huge collection amazing choice 100 million high quality affordable rf and rm images. It is quarried in the city of carrara in the province of massa and carrara in the lunigiana the northernmost tip of modern day tuscany italy. Carrara is world famous for its white marble pure and without veining. Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals most commonly calcite or dolomite.

A slab of carrara marble can cost up to 400 per square meter. No need to register buy now. The luxury stone comes the apuan alps a mountain range in northern tuscany that stretches for 58 km and reaches 2 000 meters high. Marble is typically not foliated although there are exceptions.

Michelangelo itself used to go up to the altissimo mountain 1589 meters to take the marble to sculpt and create its works. In italy s most marble rich area known as the apuan alps the abundance is surreal.