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2. Carrara marble - Wikipedia

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   Carrara marble, or Luna marble (marmor lunense) to the Romans, is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It has been quarried since Roman times in the mountains just outside the city of Carrara in the province of Massa and Carrara in the Lunigiana , the northernmost tip of modern-day Tuscany , Italy.

3. I stopped at a Mediterranean port where few cruise ... - AOL

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   Today, Carrara marble is a $1 billion industry that produces products from tiles and countertops to toothpaste. Marble sizes used for floor tiles (L) and toothpaste (R). Joey Hadden/Business Insider

4. Carrara Cathedral - Wikipedia

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   Carrara Cathedral. Coordinates: 44.0800°N 10.0994°E. Façade of the Cathedral. Side view. Carrara Cathedral ( Italian: Duomo di Carrara) is a Roman Catholic church, dedicated to Saint Andrew, in the town of Carrara, located in central Italy. Most of the exterior, and much of the interior, is covered in the local Carrara marble .

5. Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara - Wikipedia

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   The Met object ID: 12052. [ edit on Wikidata] Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara is a 1911 painting by John Singer Sargent which is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1] The painting depicts the major effort and gruelling labor involved in the manual quarrying of marble at the Carrara quarries in Tuscany ...

6. Pigmented structural glass - Wikipedia

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   Pigmented structural glass, also known generically as structural glass and as vitreous marble, and marketed under the names Carrara glass, Sani Onyx, and Vitrolite, among others, is a high-strength, colored glass. Developed in the United States in 1900, it was widely used around the world in the first half of the 20th century in Art Deco and ...

7. List of types of marble - Wikipedia

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   Marble from Fauske Municipality in Norway Blocks of Carrara marble in Italy. The following is a list of various types of marble according to location. (NB: Marble-like stone which is not true marble according to geologists is included, but is indicated by italics with geologic classification given as footnote.