By private car with our expert Driver, reach Pietrasanta – Sacred stone! – to visit a marble sculpture studio. Continue on to the mountain village of Colonnata, famous for its lardo – fatback salumi cured in huge marble vats. You can decide to have Lunch at the Quarryman’s Restaurant before finally arriving into the marble quarries; an immense cultural and historical patrimony. Carrara Marble Quarries are world-renowned for the highest quality white marble. Selected by Caesar to build Imperial Rome, Carrara marble has supplied artists from Michelangelo to Henry Moore. Learn how marble is sculpted and how artists spend months in Carrara to give form to their creative visions. Visit the working quarry from which Michelangelo’s David and La Pietà emerged. Tour the network of 30 open-air active quarries by 4×4 off road vehicle, reaching an elevation of almost 1000 m (3280 feet) from which you can see the sea – here James Bond’s Quantum of Solace was filmed. Travel down the mountains to reach a Farmhouse where you will enjoy a visit to the Estate and a tasting of their local products.
*NOTE: Lunch is not included. Sampling of Carrara marble monuments worldwide: Rome (the Pantheon, Trajan’s Column, etc.); Florence (Michelangelo’s David); London (Marble Arch); Toronto (First Canadian Place); Boston (Harvard Medical School); Oslo (Opera House); Colleville-sur-Mer (Normandy American Cemetery & Memorial, WWII); Washington, DC (Peace Monument); Canberra (Parliament Building); Manila (Manila Cathedral interior)
