The following itineraries in the world of Carrara marble are enjoynable by individuals and groups of tourists, suitable by adults and students and include sites easily approachable by every type of motor-coach.
The standard half day program (about 3 hrs.) includes the visit of a marble quarry and one of the options listed below, the full day program (about 8 hrs.) permits to add other options of visit.
Visit of a marble quarry
Meet the Guide at Carrara motorway exit (A12) and transfer to the world’s largest marble basins.
Visit an active marble quarry to know both ancient and modern methods of extraction and satisfy all your technical and geological curiosities.
At the end of the visit, we descend again towards Cararra through the old marble railway tunnels. During the transfer all the historical, social, cultural and artistic information concerning the district will be given.
Lardo di Colonnata
Let’s visit a larderia to see “how” and understand “why” we make and age the renowned “lardo di Colonnata IGP” for a long time (and with no hurry). Discover the “miracle” that has made it famous. A free tasting of it will be offered.
The marble made town
Medieval craftsmen’s workshops, the Duomo and the Malaspina castle (11th cent.), the baroque palaces, the houses , the fountains, the streets and the city walls, all of them built with the only available material: marble. Shape and matter, luxury and necessity, this is the side of Carrara that you have not known so far.
Building and architecture
discover how and where we produce the floors for buildings and luxury hotel, as well as for the Taj Mahal or Le Grand Arc. Thanks to big gang-saws the stone is transformed into thin slabs, and then polishing machines make them brilliant and precious. And if your planning to restore your house.......
The sculpture
“but…how could Michelangelo do that….?” Here sculptors still use the same methods Nicola Pisano and Canova did.
The marble powder and chips heap up at the feet of the marble block that takes form due to “the art of removing”. The raw material and the techniques are still the same.
Half day service (about 3 hrs.) € 110,00
Full day service ( about 8 hrs.) € 190,00
Additional costs: sculpture studio € 2,00/pax - marble workshop € 2,00/pax - Options available only on work days and saturday morning.
For large groups possibility to arrange combo itinerarires between the ones listed above and our programs at marble quarries on 4x4 off road vehicles