Carrara, Italy - At dawn ... is one of the world’s most important white marble extraction districts, with more than 100 quarries on its doorstep. Marble has been quarried in this area since ...

Check it out. From far away, the Apuan Alps in Carrara, Italy, look snowcapped. But they're actually covered in white marble. "Is that snow?" my partner said one morning as we opened our cabin ...

In recent projects, Adjmi has designed bathrooms with hefty white marble vanities mounted against black-tiled walls, and corridors with white-marble mosaic floors bordered by patterns rendered in ...

In recent years the quarries of Carrara have had an annual aggregate ... bianco which is of the greatest importance, and the white statuary marble is the noblest of all. It has many varieties.

The stone extracted from outside the nearby city of Carrara, including from the white marble quarry in the image below, is ...

Calacatta marble, a highly prized white stone exclusively quarried from the Apuan Mountains in the Carrara region of Tuscany, Italy, runs $180 per square foot, according to HomeAdvisor.

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