The Story Of Marble

The story of marble, whether in the east or the west, is always amazing. Every natural stone with abundant texture is not easy to get. When fingertips gently touch the stone surface, hundreds of millions of years of time precipitation has been contained. The story of marble, for the most part, always begins in Italy.

The Italians named the marble City Carrara, which in Latin means "quarry." As early as in ancient Rome, there were hundreds of quarries, large and small. The ancient Romans did not hesitate to pay a high price to excavate the stone here in order to build the landmark buildings of Empire power: Pantheon, Colosseum, Temple of the sun in Balbec, etc. Augustus, the founding emperor of ancient Rome, was proud to announce that he inherited a stone city, but left a marble city. It can be seen that in the eyes of ancient Romans, marble is not a kind of stone. The reason may depend on its rare color.

Bedizzano is a small village in the karala area, mainly inhabited by quarrymen and their families, surrounded by marble.

On the rocks of the bett ogli quarry, two workers wound simple ropes around their waist and reached the quarry area to remove the remaining debris so as not to fall and hit the quarry workers.

Borghini, one of karala's most famous quarries, has become the favorite of many tourist explorers with its outstanding features, even though it has been abandoned.

The huge cave is in sharp contrast to the people walking in it.

Trucks carrying waste materials are walking along the winding mountain road.

The cargo ship NASIP Panama is loading and unloading 2000 tons of marble for transportation around the world. There are 106 marbles on board.

Marble is not an infinite resource. Like North American timber and Antarctic ice, Italian marble will be used up sooner or later. However, the special properties of marble determine that even if it disappears from the top of the Alps, it will not perish on the earth. It will be distributed in various forms in all corners of the world, and maybe there is a piece in your home.