Marble Mines In Italy

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.

Marble mines in italy. The family created the office of marble in 1564 to regulate the marble mining industry. It s a short drive approximately 26 miles. Carrara marble has been used since the time of ancient rome and it was called the luni marble. It is on the carrione river some 100 kilometres 62 mi west northwest of florence its motto is fortitudo mea in rota latin.

Carrara k ə ˈ r ɑːr ə kə rar ə italian. Today italy s marble tends to move farther than it did before not just 200 miles to rome or 700 miles to london but 3 000 miles to abu dhabi and 4 000 miles to mumbai and 5 000 miles to beijing. 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. When you think of visiting italy is a carrara marble mine tour on your boomer itinerary.

The city of massa in particular saw much of its plan. In the 17th and 18th centuries the marble quarries were monitored by the cybo and malaspina families who ruled over massa and carrara.