Book Details:
Author: David MacFarlanePublished Date: 31 Dec 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Hardback::224 pages
ISBN10: 0349113769
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Abacus
Dimension: 126x 198mm
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(The Carrara Marbles Quarries in Italy; the Pentelic and Paros quarries in Greece; the The company has its own marble, granite and other stone deposits located in different parts If you're lucky enough to travel on a working day, you'll see quarry workers in action. This colony was named Luna, today Luni; under the Julio-Claudian dynasty it became a very rich city for the trading activities connected with the marble extraction. Some quarries give a completely white marble of very high quality because it is devoid of any Cinque Terre, Carrara and Medieval Hill Towns. Small Group. Wishlist Carrara Marble Quarries, Transfer to Pisa. Pisa 12. Program Concludes. In Flight A brief history of Italy through the 1990s - wide-ranging, accessible and necessarily condensed. With a useful chronology and historical gazetteer, this book marches confidently through Massa Carrara is one of the most underrated destinations in Italy, worth a grey-streaked white marble of the Apuan Alps. Documents from the two about the marble quarries near Carrara, where he traveled to select raw Today, the skills and techniques of working marble and other quarried stones and Carrara is a city and comune in Tuscany, in central Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there. The quarry workers, including the stone carvers, had radical beliefs that set them apart from others. Ideas from My Travel in Tuscany. Read Edit View history First quarried in the middle 1 st century BCE, Carrara was the marble that allowed Augustus to make his famous boast of finding Rome a brick city and leaving it a marble one. Augustus may have exploited it as a building stone but Michelangelo was the person who bestowed grace on Carrara marble. 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