9:00am to 5:00pm. Every day
A day on the footpaths of Michelangelo. We will drive to the quarries of Carrara, to discover the history of its precious marble. With your local driving guide you will stop in Pietrasanta, one of the prettiest town 3 kms inland from Forte de' Marmi beaches!
Highlights:
- A day on the tracks of Michelangelo
- You' will be dazzled by the views of the marble in the Apuan Alps
- Pietrasanta, one of the prettiest town of the Tuscan coast. Discover why many artists move here.
Your driver guide meets you at your hotel for a day in the Apuane mountains. Here, above Carrara, is where all white marble comes from! From these wonderful mountains since Ancient Rome mankind has been extracting one of the most precious building materials in the world: the Marble of Carrara. The list of artwoks realized all over the world with this material is innumerable, among them, Michelangelo's David in the Accademia Museum in Florence We will visit one of the many quarries, where you'll walk on marble. You will see how the extraction was done in the past, with a huge cost in terms of los of lives shaping the life of local people, the proud descendants of the Apuani .
We'll see where Michelagelo lived and chose the marble for its masterpieces and we will finally spend afternoon in Pietrasanta, a charming old town, well known for its ateliers of sculptures, the town that Michelangelo chose to start a new extraction site in the local caves.
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