The majestic marble quarries of northern italy.
Marble quarries of northern italy.
The serpentine road of torano s marble valley credit luca locatelli institute for the new york times.
A look at how the stone is wrenched from the earth.
What we admire as pristine white stone was born hundreds of millions of years ago in overwhelming darkness.
The majestic marble quarries of northern italy fueled by insatiable demand in the gulf states the italian marble trade is booming.
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.
I was curious to find a way to shoot them to show their majestic dimensions so i was making pictures which i started to share on instagram.
Marble quarries located at the top of the mountains form the background of the town of carrara.
Due to the way in which the marble is taken the large spaces the symmetrical precision of the excavations and the shape of the worktops the mountains have been transformed into.