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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.
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.
The road across the Bukit peninsula climbs past limestone quarries to a height of 200 m (660 ft) on its way to the western tip of land and Pura Luhur Uluwatu.
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.
The town was also important for the pharaohs because it sat close to one of the largest sources of high-quality granite quarries in the country, providing stone for many of its finest temples.