Carrara marble resists.
My best seller is Michelangelo! This sentence comes from Alvise Lazzareschi, one of the many quarrymen exploiting Carrara marble. The finger pointing to the mountains that surround it from which came the blocks that came to choose the famous sculptor for the "Pieta" or "David". And who have participated in so many famous monuments throughout Europe.
Alvise's ancestors started extracting blocks from the mountain more than 500 years ago. Blessed mountains, overlooking the Mediterranean, on the border of Liguria and Emilia Romagna.
Near Carrara there are 1100 companies involved in this material, from extraction to processing through trade and transport.