Description
Antique print dated 1895.
The page is over 115 years old and in good condition.
In order to enhance and protect the page we have set it within a brown frame with mount.
Frame size 400mm x 370mm. Available also in a gold frame, your choice. RtW.51.
Entitled – Carrara. General View of the City.
Below the picture an inscription reads:
Carrara. – It sounds prosaic enough to tell you that you must change at Avenza for Carrara; but, then, does not a railway run into Jerusalem itself ? Romance lies far from the iron road, yet we undertake to say that after driving a little way from the station into the Marble City, you will forget you ever beheld the very necessary but unlovely locomotive engine. Carrara is reached in sixteen minutes by the branch railway fron Avenza. The population numbers about 11,900, or including suburbs, about 30,000. Of course, everyone in the place is more or less connected with the marble quarries. Even a hurried visit to the quarries takes at least three hours. On leaving the station, one turns to the right and follows a straight road past the theatre to the Piazza, at the end of which a bridge is crossed on the left. The road is here full of deep ruts; it ascends on the right bank of the Carrione, and the traveller soon reaches a group of houses, close to which a path diverges to a quarry of inferior marble. We pursue a straight road onwards, however, past marble-cutting and polishing works. Beyond the village of Torano, round which the road leads to the first quarry, the valley is somewhat disfigured with heaps of debris, which plainly indicate the vicinity of the seat of operations. It is interesting to look down upon the quarries from one of the marble mountains, and reflect that almost every masterpiece of sculpture the world has ever seen was, as it were, born in the quarries at our feet. Six thousand men are employed in the 400 quarries. They work from five o’clock in the morning till two or three in the afternoon. The best kind of marble turned out at Carrara is technically called “Marmo statuario.” Monstrous blocks, weighing many tons, are detached by blasting, and are then conveyed to the railway by teams of oxen. A horn is sounded before each explosion. The quarries of Monte Crestola and Monte Sagro yield the finest marble. We must put it on record that buying big blocks of marble, even at Carrara, is an extremely hazardous business. You may pay a big price, but when your block comes to be cut, the interior may be so discoloured or marked as to be altogether unfit for the sculptor’s use.
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