Carrara marble

The collective name of the marble extracted from stone quarries near the city of Carrara in Tuscany, Italy. Developed deposits of this marble are in Apennines, which represent a mountain circuit by length of 60 km and by width 20-25 km. From Carrara to numerous places of extraction of a marble there are four main valleys and some lateral branches. Snow-white marble of Triassic age lies on all slope down to the crest of a ridge.

Carrara stone quarries were exploited in Ancient Rome. Deposits of a marble here seem simply inexhaustible.

In deposits of Carrara there are some grades of a marble, but the clean - white marble named in Italy Bianco Carrara, but more known under the French name Blanc clair prevails. The basic tone of marble of Carrara - milky-white, sometimes with an easy bluish shade.

Clean - white grades of a marble are valued by sculptors of all planet. The most magnificent products of a sculpture are executed from snow-white marble of Carrara.