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Apuan Alps: the Marble Mountains Posted by: Marco Ramerini in Landscapes, Mountains, Natural Parks, Province of Lucca, Province of Massa and Carrara 252 Views The Apuan Alps are probably the most beautiful mountains of Tuscany, located near the sea between Garfagnana and Lunigiana are universally famous for the marble that is extracted from its quarries since antiquity.
As I flew into Pisa, the white tops of the Apuan Alps to the north were clearly visible from my window seat on the plane. until they learn that it is not snow, but marble they see.
#0183;#32;Mountains Made of Marble. By Awake! writer in Italy. THE peaks that dominate Carrara and Pietrasanta seem to be flecked with snow. But this is an illusion. Those white patches are really vast areas of debris produced by quarrying. These mountains in the Apuan Alps of Tuscany, located in northcentral Italy, are a geologic rarity.
The Apuan Alps (Italian: Alpi Apuane) are a mountain range in northern Tuscany, are included between the valleys of the Serchio and Magra rivers, and, to the northwest, the Garfagnana and Lunigiana, with a total length of approximately 55 kilometres (34 mi).. The name derives from the Apuani Ligures tribe who lived here in ancient times.
#0183;#32;From the Greek word marmaros that means shiny stone, marble has remained a noble material over the centuries. From the Italian coastal road linking Genoa to Lucca, in a 30#176;C heat, the 1,000meter (3,000 feet) high peaks of the Apuan Alps seem covered in snow.
#0183;#32;Scale the snowcovered peaks of the Apuan Alps in Carrara, Northern Italy Italy''s most marble rich area in an exclusive drone capture. These expansive quarries are
From far away, they appear to be covered in snow. But in reality, it is the bright marble that makes the Apuan Alps white all year round. Its beautiful to see the quarries.
#0183;#32;Besides, carving Italian marble at its place of origin is precisely not the point. Its major value has always derived from its removal. Hundreds of quarries have operated in the Apuan Alps since
Montalto (correctly spelled as Monte Alto or Mont''Alto, in English High Mountain) is a mountain located in Tuscany, Italy and part of the Apuan Alps range. Its highest peak is at roughly 913 meters above the sea level and it is also home of two villages, Retignano and Volegno, in the municipality of Stazzema, Province of Lucca.. Montalto was exploited in the past for its wellknown marble
History. Carrara marble has been used since the time of Ancient Rome and it was called the quot;Luni marblequot;. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the marble quarries were monitored by the Cybo and Malaspina families who ruled over Massa and Carrara. The family created the quot;Office of Marblequot; in 1564 to regulate the marble mining industry. The city of Massa, in particular, saw much of its plan
This marble occurs abundantly in the Apuan Alps, an offshoot of the Apennines, and is largely worked in the neighbourhood of Carrara, Massa and Serravezza. Stone from this district was employed in Rome for architectural purposes in the time of Augustus, but the finer varieties, adapted to the needs of the sculptor, were not discovered until some time later.
These are the Alpi Apuane, or Apuan Alps, mountains that gleam as though cloaked with snow all year round. But the pristine white is not snow, it is the marble of the bare quarried faces of the mountains the snow the gods made eternal.
#0183;#32;The three new marbleeffect textures form part of the Ultra Marmi collection London could be set for first snow of winter on Friday say which is quarried in the country''s Apuan Alps.
The Apuan Alps, also known as Alpi Apuane, is a mountain range located in Tuscany, Italy. The mountains are lined with the beautiful white Carrara marble. The light colored stone gives the mountain range a look as though they are covered in snow year round.
At first glance, the Apuan Alps of northwest Tuscanys Carrara region are pure white. Alison Leitch first saw them from a train window when traveling through Italy in the early 1980s. From a distance, she writes, their dazzling tops looked like seatmate told her otherwise: The blinding whiteness was actually marble dust, a powdery byproduct of the famous quarries that gash through
Geography. The most famous and populated part of this area is Pietrasanta, which extends along the coastline and is at the foot of the Apuan Alps, traveling from South to North, beginning at Stazzema and up to Marina di Massa.. The coastal shelf is sandy sloping gradually into the Ligurian Sea, which stretches from the Ligurian coast up to the Piombino promontory, and not from the Tyrrhenian
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