Carrara: Exclusive Marble Cave Tour Adventure in a 4x4

Name: Carrara: Exclusive Marble Cave Tour Adventure in a 4x4
Brand: Viator
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Get ready for an authentic adventure inside the famous marble caves in Carrara. Jump on the Land Rover and explore the caves with your friendly local guide. Look inside the vast white wounds that open up on the wild slopes of Carrara, and learn how the quarries have provided marble to towns and cities across Italy for more than 2,000 years. Hear about the sweat of the men who mined the marble used to build the Pantheon and Trajan's Column in Ancient Rome, along with many sculptures of the Renaissance. Get in touch with the people, places, and machinery of an ancient tradition. Drive to diﬀerent active quarries, up to 1,000 meters above sea level and hear how the noble stone is mined. Get detailed explanations about the old and modern excavation process. On our way back to Carrara, to taste a sample of the famous Lardo di Colonnata IGP.

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Insurance (by law)
1 licensed guide service
Tasting a sample of Lardo di Colonnata
Marble quarries tour
1 tour by 4x4 vehicles

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Stadio dei Marmi
Piazza Vittorio Veneto 8, Carrara, Italy
Meeting point in the Stadio dei Marmi area in Carrara, meeting with the guide, and start of the tour. From here we begin the ascent among the vineyards of the green Candia Hills (famous for giving birth to a fine and original tasting Wine) along a route between the sea and the imposing Apuan Alps that is truly spectacular. We continue along an up-and-down dirt section until we find the asphalt road again, which leads directly into the heart of the Carrara Marble Quarries.
Carrara
Carrara, Italy
Explore the most precious of Carrara's treasures: the white marble quarries. Aboard comfortable and powerful 4×4 jeeps, our guide will take you over the peaks of the Apuan Alps. Up to the marble basins at an altitude of 1,000 meters, to discover the magical place where Michelangelo found the block that gave birth to his world-famous Pieta.
1t 40min
Lardo di Colonnata
Via Comunale di Colonnata 2, Carrara, Italy
Taste a sample of the famous Lardo di colonnata
15 min

Mødested og afhentning

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Afhentningsdetaljer

Stadio dei Marmi , Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 8, 54033 Carrara MS, Italy Near the marble obelisk in front of the stadium and the bus stop. Search a Defender with an orange sign. From Carrara Avenza Bus L51-L52-L53-L54-L70 Direction - Carrara Ospedale