THE ITALIAN TOWN of Pietrasanta, wedged between the foothills of the Apuan Alps and the wide sandy beaches that front the Ligurian Sea, has all the features of an archetypal Tuscan village. There’s ...

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New excavations at the ancient thermal baths of San Casciano dei Bagni in Tuscany, Italy have yielded a life-sized, well-preserved statue of the mythical figure Apollo Sauroktonos—the latest discovery ...

CENTURIES after becoming the favourite white stone of Roman emperors and sculptors down the ages – including Michelangelo and later Antonio Canova – the marble from Tuscany’s fabled Carrara quarries ...

In 1517, Michelangelo climbed Mount Altissimo in Tuscany and found the marble of his dreams. It was, the Renaissance master wrote, "of compact grain, homogeneous, crystalline, reminiscent of sugar." ...

The discovery of the endangered Italian alpine newt in a disused mine has shone a light on the biodiversity hiding in the Carrara marble quarries of Tuscany The heart of the Apuan Alps in Tuscany, ...

A bitter dispute has broken out between environmental campaigners, who say the quarries above the town of Carrara are a blot on the landscape and contribute to dangerous levels of erosion, and the ...

So many design styles, so little time. It seems as if 2021 was inundated with an abundance of both new styles and new takes on old favorites as people began to climb out of a lockdown-induced ...

Tuscan marble quarry used by Michelangelo to craft David statue and builders of London's Marble Arch bought by Osama bin Laden's family Bridges of Vara at the Fantiscritti marble quarries of Carrara, ...