Marble Mines In Pisa

Admire the leaning tower of pisa explore the marble quarries of carrara and visit the charming lucca.

Marble mines in pisa.

Discover the amazing attractions of carrara pisa and lucca with our outstanding tour from florence. But marble is not the only precious product of the area. It s a short drive approximately 26 miles. I went into the city s cathedral naturally made of marble but lacking the beauty of churches in wealthier towns like siena pisa and florence.

We will guide you through the most beautiful places in italy. The pantheon and the trajan s column in rome are built of carrara marble. The family created the office of marble in 1564 to regulate the marble mining industry. Just how long can the marble of carrara last.

A famous saying of augustus is. We came here to visit any of the caves and we could enter in two of them. Cantera di colonata a real cave at free air where you can see where the marble stones are extracted since roman period. A curious spin off the marble industry is the delicacy lardo di colonnata.

Lardo was the traditional high energy food of the workers in the quarries. A question does enter your mind as you take in the devastating effects of 2000 years of mining. On a guided road trip in northern italy we told claudio of a la carte italy tours the more off the beaten path the better that s why during our stay in lucca alan and i found ourselves inside a mountain with white marble dust coating our shoes. Experience the unique flavor of lardo di colonnata enjoy some free time in pisa s piazza dei miracoli and more.

Marble maintains the local economy. In the 17th and 18th centuries the marble quarries were monitored by the cybo and malaspina families who ruled over massa and carrara. The city of massa in particular saw much of its plan. In carrara producing and selling marble is the way of life.

Carrara marble has been used since the time of ancient rome and it was called the luni marble. I found rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble marmoream relinquo quam latericiam accepi many sculptures of the renaissance the david from michelangelo amongst many others were also carved in marble blocks extracted from the carrara s quarry. Marble caves of carrara diferents caves located in this well known city not so far from pisa in italy. When you think of visiting italy is a carrara marble mine tour on your boomer itinerary.