Anri Marble Quarry Italy

Italy is the world leader in marble export with 20 share in global marble production.

Anri marble quarry italy.

Learn how the marble was mined to build the pantheon and trajan s column in ancient rome and how it was often used for sculpture during the renaissance. Marble quarries located at the top of the mountains form the background of the town of carrara. My strength is in the wheel. Co operating with quarry owners across italy marble italia sources various types of marble and porphyry allowing you a vast choice of stone for your commercial or private project.

Visit the marble quarries of carrara on a half day tour from colonnata that highlights the marble industry in italy. The serpentine road of torano s marble valley. Green groups such as italia nostra our italy and fai the italian environmental fund are calling for much stricter measures to be imposed on the extraction of the marble including a ban on. 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. That s 10 times as much as was quarried 10 years ago. It s not a place for mother nature. In italy s most marble rich area known as the apuan alps the abundance is surreal.

This is where the famous marble has been excavated since roman times. Heavy machinery quarries out 60 000 tons of white marble each year. Sit on a beach in one of the nearby towns forte dei marmi viareggio and you appear to be looking up at. Surrounded by what looks like two stories of smooth white stone spokesman marco pezzica explains that his hometown of carerra italy is the capital in the world for excavation of white marble.

The canalgrande marble quarry 1 000 meters above sea level. We at carrara marmi deal with the extraction production and export of marble stones granite stones stone blocks slabs tiles and similar products.