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The quarries located on the southern foothills of Monte Altissimo impose themselves on the visitor for the spectacular landscape, which sweeps over the grandiose scenarios of the Apuan Alps and embraces the vast marine horizon, from the Gulf of La Spezia to Livorno, and amazes for the environment. surreal consisting of the geometries of vertical and horizontal planes determined by the cutting of the marble banks.

The light reflects on the vertiginous, white and shiny walls, which delimit the space of fantastic cathedrals carved into the mountain, from where one of the most precious marbles in the world is extracted: Arabescato, a white marble with gray veins.

An unforgettable scenario, where men and machines are engaged in mining activities, using methods based on centuries-old experience supported by the most advanced technology.

A difficult and delicate work, which video and photographers, even the most specialized, can only partially document. Here the noble material has been extracted for almost two hundred years: marbles have been used - and still are in Italy and abroad - for the realization of the most important architectural projects ever carried out with natural materials, and sculptures signed by the most known contemporary masters.

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