Marble time

Trip Start Feb 23, 2009

Trip End Aug 22, 2009

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Flag of Italy Carrara, Tuscany, Italy
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Our teacher took us on a delightful field trip to the mountains of Carrara. The interesting thing about these marble caves is that the type of marble found here is unique to any other type in the world. All the great Italian sculptors got there marble from here!

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The town of Carrara	Cool statue	Carrara's church	Prayer time
Into the heart of the marble quarry	it's hard to be a cow	decisions, decisions	memorial
tools	toys have really come a long way	it looks like some of the mountain is missing	Lard sandwiches
Colonnata	Tasty Jacki?	Colonnata residence	statue is pointing the way
fellow tourists	nap time	good view!	if you ever wondered how a marble quarry
ah I see	lonely bench	the marble quarries	In the National Park
That's not how you sit on a bench! Silly Jack	Trees for miles	A map showing the spots that we visited today	the islands are portovenere and palmaria