Summer 2026
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Read more: Carrara Marble Quarry: First Impressions
As we were driving up the mountain, the scale was breathtaking! It was a foggy day so the peak of the mountains went up so…
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Read more: Carrara Mine; ImpressionsAs the bus hit yet another bump on the narrow, winding hill up to the quarry, I was struck by the absolute scale of the…
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Read more: Effects of The Carrara Marble Mine
Kyle Giacobello Today I was fortunate enough to accompany my peers on a class trip to the Carrara marble mine. Other than the fact that…
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Read more: Menacing Marble MinesOne of my favorite parts about visiting the marble mines was learning the stories of the people that work there. As a bioengineer with a…
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Read more: Marble ManiaWhen I first arrived at the Carrara quarry, I was surprised by the pure scale of the mountains and how we couldn’t even see the…
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Read more: The Supply Chain Transition from the Past to Current
In the past for Carrara, the marble had to be hand delivered, plank by plank to all of the places that the sculptor wanted it…
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Read more: Rocks behind the Renaissance: CarraraStanding at the edge of the Carrara quarry, the first thing that hit me was just how massive it was. No photo really prepares you…
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Read more: The Scale of the Carraraby Caiden Martos, Mechanical Engineering, Summer 2026, Florence Visiting the Carrara mines today, I was surprised just how much “stuff” there is for us to…
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Read more: Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, Off to the Mine We Go!After a two hour drive from Florence, we arrived in Carrara, Italy. Arriving here, it struck me how large the mines were. There are around…
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Read more: I, in fact, do not yearn for the minesLooking out the window as we approached the vast mountains towering over us, the quarries looked like small patches of snow. As we traveled up…
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