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By Marco Bernacca

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Free cancellation available
Price is €99 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

    • Tour with a professional guide and former quarryman from a quarrying family
    • Admire views from the quarry to the Mediterranean coast
    • Learn about marble and its history on an informative tour

Activity location

    • Carrara
    • Carrara, Toscana, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Piazza Sacco e Vanzetti, 54033 Carrara MS, Italy
    • Carrara, Toscana, Italy

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Carrara White Marble Quarry Tour, 4x4 Experience

  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English
Price details
€99.00 x 2 Adults€198.00
Total
Price is €198.00

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Entrance into working quarry
  • Inclusions
    Colonnata lard tasting
  • Inclusions
    Tour guide
  • Inclusions
    Transfer service from meeting point Carrara to Carrara

Know before you book

    • Not suitable for: Babies under 1 year, Wheelchair users
    • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
    • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

What you can expect

  • Pickup service from Carrara or from nearby areas. We will approach the quarry n° 177 in Colonnata by four-wheel drive and from there on, take a walking tour to visit one of the oldest quarries still in progress. Between ancient Roman columns and antique artefacts we will talk about excavation and processing techniques over the past centuries; while walking inside the extractive heart of the quarry you will be able to observe the machinery used daily and analyse the different marble themes, its extraction and transport, its origin, its trade and other curiosities.

    The tour will continue by four-wheel drive through the old marble railway that will lead us to the famous bridges of Vara for a stop and a taste of the lardo of Colonnata and it will go on until we reach one of the highest quarries of the area through a partly paved, partly dirt road, to enjoy the breathtaking view from the quarries to the sea.

    Recommended: hiking shoes or sports shoes/trainers
    Sunglasses

Location

Activity location

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    • Carrara
    • Carrara, Toscana, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Piazza Sacco e Vanzetti, 54033 Carrara MS, Italy
    • Carrara, Toscana, Italy