I took a Mediterranean cruise in 2023 and stopped at Marina di Carrara, a lesser-known Italian port. I visited an active quarry in the Apuan Alps of Carrara — home to the coveted Carrara marble.

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 ...

I visited an active quarry in the Apuan Alps of Carrara, Italy — home to the coveted Carrara marble. Located in Tuscany, Carrara marble is a $1 billion industry thanks to hard workers at the ...

Located less than an hour’s drive from Camp Darby, Carrara is renowned for its marble quarries and rich artistic heritage. In fact, Michaelangelo’s famed statue, The David, was carved from ...

The stone extracted from outside the nearby city of Carrara, including from the white marble quarry in the image below, is ...

Climate activists look towards a quarry at the foot of Monte Sagro [Alberto Mazzieri/Al Jazeera] Carrara, a small town nestled at the foot of the Apuan Alps in northwestern Tuscany, is one of the ...

The original video can be viewed here. In 1497, an ambitious 22-year-old hiked up to the quarries above the Italian town of Carrara looking for a perfect block of marble. He searched for months ...

sculptor M.J. Anderson has been making annual trips from her home on the Oregon Coast to Carrara, Italy. She spends up to three months there, traveling along a winding road to quarries with ...