The marble in the Apuan Alps has been used since the Roman Empire for buildings and sculptures, according to UNESCO. Today, it's home to several marble quarries, and I got to see them for myself.

The white marble mountains of the Apuan Alps formed over 200 million years, and while the quarries have been in use since Roman times, recent developments in extraction processes have turned the ...

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

The trip up the Apuan Alps was the last one they had to do. She had sent me a photo of the mountains and said "Mom if you could see how beautiful it is from up here." ...

Carrara, a small town nestled at the foot of the Apuan Alps in northwestern Tuscany, is one of the world’s most important white marble extraction districts, with more than 100 quarries on its ...

"The trip up the Apuan Alps was the last one they had to do. Article continues below "She had sent me a photo of the mountains and said 'Mom, if you could see how beautiful it is from up here'.