Reportage

• WHITE AS MARBLE
Marble’s quarrying is one of the most ancient trades. Romans climbed the mountains to quarry marble’s blocks to build villas, gardens and fountains.

And from then on, the job of those who work in the quarries is one the hardest trade, notwithstanding the tools, the techniques and means of transports used nowadays.

Fantiscritti’s quarries, above Carrara, are the most fascinating in all Tuscany. Visiting the Franca Giorni’s school and the museum we find a visual proof of the workers’ life, of the marble’s quarrying and making.

Every corner hides something: an old pulley, a steel rusty construction, the roads across which the marble blocks were transported. Reaching the school, then, we meet Franca, who will be ready to explain us the techniques for marble’s making, strating from quarrying up to the creation of a work of art.


[artiche and photos published on Digital Camera Magazine 04/2003]