Apuan Alps, Lucca And Massa Carrara, Italy
2023 CE • Lucca, LU, Italia
In the twenty-five years I have lived, I have seen the marble quarries eating up my landscapes, and the memories of my childhood. Last week I took a walk in Val Serenaia. It was truly disheartening to see how much the quarries have climbed up the mountains there. Landscape's full of bright-white dusty holes. The Apuan Alps are both a protected site and an excavation one. One can hardly imagine how those two things could actually go together.
Image : Marble quarries above Carrara. Vmenkov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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