In recent years the quarries of Carrara have had an annual aggregate output of about 200,000 tons. They supply the bulk of the marble used in Italy and Europe to-day for sculpture and other ...

The luxury stone comes the Apuan Alps, a mountain range in northern ... Marble has been carved here since the Ancient Roman times, and because of its millennial history, the Carrara quarries ...

At the foot of striking marble quarries in central Italy's Apuan Alps sits the village of Colonnata (pictured above) – a ...