Apuan Alps, white marble quarries, Fantiscritti valley, the Vara bridges structures, marble railway in the past, marble blocks transport trucks road

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Italy, Carrara, Tuscany, White marble quarries, the extraction of white statuary marble, Michelangelo Buonarroti's marble for the Pieta comes from here, this is the Fantiscritti valley where marble has been extracted since Roman times, from the Roman Empire. From above you can see the road structures of the Vara bridges once used for the marble railway today for the transit of the many marble transport trucks.

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Location: Marble quarries, Colonnata, Carrara, Tuscany, Italy
Photo credit: © Paolo Maggiani / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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