For nearly 40 years, sculptor M.J. Anderson has been making annual trips from her home on the Oregon Coast to Carrara, Italy. She spends up to three months there, traveling along a winding road to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I visited an active quarry in the Apuan Alps of Carrara, Italy — home to the coveted Carrara marble. Located in Tuscany, Carrara ...

Work has resumed at the Yule Marble Quarry in Marble under new ownership, ending a 10-month closure for the historic facility that has produced stone for the Lincoln Memorial and the Tomb of the ...

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, ...

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CARRARA, Italy — Make sure you come prepared. You need sunglasses or the bright sun reflecting off the towering white marble walls that surround you in the mountains overlooking Carrara will blind you ...

"Is that snow?" my partner said one morning during a summer Mediterranean cruise as we opened our cabin's curtains to see a wide view of the Apuan Alps in Carrara, Italy. "No, it's marble," I said, ...