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Today, a visit to the quarries, just outside town, reveals some of the secrets of how the ancient Egyptians worked the stone.
The people of Borba make their living from extracting marble from quarries, as well as producing fine red and white wines.
Alabaster and marble: Carving skills have been passed down through the centuries, particularly in villages near the Valley of the Kings and around the marble quarries at Aswan.
Behind the alternating rocky and sandy coastline, from the marble quarries of Carrara, the mountain chain of the Apennines reaches south into Tuscany — where lie the ageless beauties of Pisa, Lucca, Florence, and Siena, not to mention the smaller, and arguably more magical, hillside towns of Montepulciano, Volterra, and San Gimignano.
Cool off with an excursion inland to Carrara, where the marble quarries provided the raw material for Italy’s greatest achievements, the monuments of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance.