Last year, 1.2 million tons of blocks crossed the Italian border ... Instead the Carrara marble has all those characteristics. Then it's a pretty uniform white. It has a medium hardness.

The marble extraction basin of the Province of Massa-Carrara in Italy is known for being a symbol ... the form of the extractivism of its famous white marble. Athamanta defines itself as a path ...

At the foot of striking marble quarries in central Italy's Apuan Alps sits the ... from outside the nearby city of Carrara, including from the white marble quarry in the image below, is widely ...

And calacatta is one of the world's most expensive types of marble. It's more than double the price of carrara marble, yet mined in the same mountains. But the key to calacatta's price is its rarity.