Marble Caves of Carrara

Excellent and informative trip

These fascinating quarries are where Michelangelo used to source his marble for his masterpieces in Florence and Rome. The caves offer two types of tours up and down the quarries in 4WD cars. Our tour...

Amazing, nature at its best

Incredible, we didn't get to the caves as too early, but incredible views, nature at its best ! We met some fabulous people at local workers cafe, fantastic, have us a history of carrara mines! Ama...

Impressive

Arrival is possible on normal roads. The mining is impressive. It is definitely worth visiting the small museum - entrance fee only 3 EUR. There is also the possibility of a tour but what stopped me i...

Of the world's best marble.

Original Text

Carrara marble (for Roman marble lunensis, or "lunense marble") is a kind of marble, extracted from the hills of the Apuan Alps in Carrara, Italy.

Terre and career of emotions

Original Text

In this immensity of white and impressive façades , we can only think of these works of the Roman and Renaissance times and all of this is part of our intemporary history .