Granite quarry

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Going there is most of the fun! Imagine seeing a whole troop of Swedish and Finnish workers walking through here! Go for a walk in Rockport, and not only can you enjoy nature—you can also imagine the scene from a century ago. Look at the forest trail in the picture above, and imagine scores of workers, mostly Scandinavian, striding through the woods, lunch pails in hand, on their way to put in a full day in the granite quarries. You can almost see them now--- throngs of Swedes and Finns…

The marble of the “Alpi Apuane” was well known and appreciated from ancient times. Near Carrara the Romans built a military harbor, later transformed in a town, where the excavated marbles were collected and transported to Rome by sea. This colony was named Luna, today Luni; under the Julio-Claudian dynasty it became a very rich city for the trading activities connected with the marble extraction.  Some quarries give a completely white marble of very high quality because it is devoid of any ... Rich City, Italian Cinema, Rock Quarries, Stone Quarry, Marble Board, Vertical Landscape, The Romans, The Marble, A Town

The marble of the “Alpi Apuane” was well known and appreciated from ancient times. Near Carrara the Romans built a military harbor, later transformed in a town, where the excavated marbles were collected and transported to Rome by sea. This colony was named Luna, today Luni; under the Julio-Claudian dynasty it became a very rich city for the trading activities connected with the marble extraction. Some quarries give a completely white marble of very high quality because it is devoid of any…

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