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Marble Quarry of Mount Altissimo
On the slopes of Mount Altissimo, one of the highest peaks on Seravezza territory, lie the famous marble quarries. The merit for "valorising" these quarries goes to Michelangelo Buonarroti when in 1517 he came to Seravezza from Carrara "to attempt to quarry from these mountains the marble [...]
Creator
- Europeana
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Type of item
- Places of technology - Quarries and mining parks
- quarries (extracting complexes)
Creator
- Europeana
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Type of item
- Places of technology - Quarries and mining parks
- quarries (extracting complexes)
Providing institution
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Rights
- © Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Places
- Seravezza, Via Monte Altissimo
Identifier
- urn:imss:place:700307
Language
- eng
- ita
Is part of
- http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/itineraries/itinerary/VersiliaAlongTheMarbleRoads.html
References
- http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/itineraries/biography/MichelangeloBuonarroti.html
Is referenced by
- http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/itineraries/itinerary/EarthSciencesTuscany.html
Providing country
- Italy