Carrara Marble Quarries Tours

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Carrara marble quarries tours.

Tour of carrara marble quarries on 4 4 off road vehicle visit the marble quarries on 4 4 off road vehicle is a unique and profound experience. Get to know a different and fascinating reality made up of hard work and genius ancient sweat and modern technology. A guided tour to the carrara marble quarries. Costo euro 12 00 a partecipante durata 50 60 minuti.

Client pick up limited area transportation to the fantiscritti quarries. It is a busy place with heavy trucks and machinery around every corner. Discover the fantastic carrara marble quarries in tuscany on a 4 4 jeep. It s known for its beautiful squares and is filled with many portals and architectural details made in the famous white carrara marble.

For the last 2000 years here nature and man s work daily embrace and reject each other in order to supply the raw material for. It means to enjoy the charm of places inaccessible for most of the visitors travelling along winding and steep roads together with trucks which incessantly challenge technical and human limits. The marble quarries enormous white wounds that open themselves along wild and abrupt slopes where small men handle gigantic stone. The visit take place in a minivan with a private english speaking driver and according to your wishes it may include.

This is not a place you just pass by and stop to have a peak at by yourself. Moreover you will taste the delicious lardo di colonnata in the nearby village colonnata. There are guided tours like marmo tours you can join several times a day and you can find them at a meeting. Best to hire a guide to show you around.

2 hours 25 minutes. A jeep tour carrara marble tour see details here on. Wear comfortable shoes and sun protection. Carrara marble quarries tours are primarily by off road vehicle or bus but do require some walking.

Carrara the marble built town recently included in the unesco list for creative cities for marble crafts. The carrara marble quarries the workshops of sculpture. Private tour in carrara marble quarries with 4x4 vehicles. Private tours of the carrara marble quarries the world s largest marble excavation area.

Our guided tours allow in absolute safety direct contact with places people tools machinery and. On our carrara marble quarries tour. The view from the highest quarries and colonnata stretch over italy s apuan alps to the mediterranean sea so be sure to bring your camera. The city of carrara is located at the foot of the alps.

The marble quarries the sculpture workshops carrara historical center and colonnata with its famous lard. Carrara marble quarries guided tours by 4x4 vehicles with.