Half or full day tour with your own motor-coach
marble quarriers, carrara historical center, sculpture workshop,
Large groups traveling by coach are welcome in the Carrara marble quarries. This art and culture tour, will let you know more about the excavation and transportation of marble, take you visiting an authentic sculpture workshop and discover Carrara, the marble built town.
Highlights
- The tour is private and on request and easily customizable.
- Duration, 3 hours in the half day, 7 hrs in the full day tour.
- Different itineraries according to the size of your motor coach.
- Know more about the geology of marble.
- Learn more about the history of marble extraction and transportation.
- Visit a sculpture workshop in week days.
- Visit Carrara historical center: the medieval, the Renaissance and modern part of the town.
- Free time for a possible visit to the marble souvenir shops.
ITINERARY PLANNED FOR MOTOR-COACHES MAX 12,50 METERS LONG
(sculpture workshop, quarry museum, Carrara historical center)
- Meet the local guide at Carrara highway exit and head to Fantiscritti marble valley;
- Upon arrival, soon get into an authentic marble workshop where the artisans will show you how marble is carved. Available in week days.
- Afterward, visit the quarry museum, a huge collection of tools and equipments for telling about the history of marble excavation and transportation.
- Free time for eventual visit of the marble shops.
- Time to heading to Carrara old town for pleasant walk through 1000 years of history discovering the medieval, the Renaissance and the modern part of Carrara, the marble built town.
- Light lunch in a local restaurant.
Price € 45 per person – with minimum 25 participants – 1 free
Inclusions: local guide 3 hrs, quarry museum ticket, marble workshop entrance fee, light lunch (mixed appetizers, pasta, dessert, water, wine, coffee).
Inclusions: local guide 3 hrs, quarry museum ticket, marble workshop entrance fee, light lunch (mixed appetizers, pasta, dessert, water, wine, coffee).
NOTES
- There is a bus ticket to pay for the access to the Carrara territory. Before COVID-19, the amount was € 50 per bus.
- You can make this program a full day by adding a 4×4 tour, the underground quarry visit, organize a sculpting experience.
- This program can be easily customized upon your wishes. Please contact us for further requests.
CARRARA MARBLE QUARRY ART AND CULTURE TOUR
ITINERARY PLANNED FOR MOTOR-COACHES OF ANY SIZE
(sculpture workshop, Roman Quarry, scale model of a marble quarry, Carrara historical center)
- Meet the local guide at Carrara highway exit and head to Colonnata marble valley;
- Upon arrival, visit an authentic workshop where the marble artisans will show you how marble is carved. Available in week days.
- Afterward, stopover by a scale model where, helped by some tools and pictures, the guide will explain the history of marble excavation and transportation.
- Afterward, move to the Roman Quarry, an archaeological and panoramic site where see the traces of the ancient methods of excavation and admire the scenario of the marble valley.
- At last move into Carrara old town where it will be held a guided walk of the historical center.
- Free time for eventual visit of the marble shops.
- Light lunch in a local restaurant.
Price € 43 per person – with minimum 25 participants – 1 free
Inclusions: local guide 3 hrs, sculpture workshop fee, light lunch (mixed appetizers, pasta, dessert, water, wine, coffee).
Inclusions: local guide 3 hrs, sculpture workshop fee, light lunch (mixed appetizers, pasta, dessert, water, wine, coffee).
NOTES
- There is a bus ticket to pay for the access to the Carrara territory. Before covid, the amount was € 50 per bus.
- You can make this program a full day by adding a 4×4 tour, the underground quarry visit, organize a sculpting experience.
- This program can be easily customized upon your wishes. Please contact us for further requests.
