Marble is famous since ancient times. This durable, beautiful, and in some cases, having a bright color the stone has some special charm. Throughout the world there are many types of marble. Some are famous than others – less. The category of the best varieties without any doubt belongs Carrara marble. About it and speech will go further.
Among Alansky Alps, in Tuscany, is a small provincial town of Carrara, which means quarry. During the Roman Empire, the place became a settlement of stonemasons, producing beautiful marble. Since then began the history of Carrara.
There were decades, centuries, changed state after Rome came the Goths, then the Byzantines, Germans, Florentines, but, notwithstanding that, Carrara has continued to use the well-deserved reputation. Italian Carrara became in the second half of the 19th century, after the unification of Italy.
Now Carrara is a small town with a population of less than 70 thousand of the population and well developed infrastructure. Of the attractions it is worth mentioning the famous Carrara Cathedral, located in Cathedral square, unfinished statue “Giant”, is situated on the same square, the Palace Kibo-Malaspina and fairly well-known monastery of St. Francis.
Also in well-established trade and tourism. However, basic income and fame receives from the Carrara marble extraction.
From the extremely beautiful and expensive Carrara stone famous masters of the Renaissance and Baroque sculpted masterpieces. Take, for example, the statue of David by Michelangelo. Two years master worked on the future of the statue and created a true masterpiece that never ceases to amaze even now.
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A famous song Pieta is the Michelangelo. She is now in the Vatican one of the most famous sanctuaries of the Orthodox world, in St. Peter's Basilica. The master managed to embody in stone all that a lot of emotion on the face of Maria all the deepest sorrow of mother for the lost son Jesus.
Is Also very famous for sculpture, carved from the same material called “the Abduction of Proserpina”. According to the master Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini carved this song, he managed to make marble plastic material. With this skill got to do a lot of masterpieces, such as “the Ecstasy of Blessed Louis Albertoni” and “Apollo and Daphne".
And in other lands are also very famous Carrara marble. Photo products a great many on the Internet. In London there is the famous Marble arch, which is the true ornament of the Haydn Park. In Manila, the capital of the Philippines, this material was used in the construction and decoration of the Cathedral.
In Abu Dhabi from white Carrara stone dazzles the senses the beautiful mosque. In Delhi, its eleven-millionth city, second in population in India after Mumbai, this material was used in the construction of a Hindu temple complex. Carrara marble was used in the construction of the peace Monument in Washington. And this is not a complete list of…
At the present time, this material continues to be in great demand and popularity. It is made from tiles for floor and walls, and various decorative and construction elements for decoration and even make pieces of furniture, and the furniture entirely.
So here it is - the Carrara marble that has passed through the centuries and continues to delight all around.
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