Inside Italy's $1 Billion Marble Mountains
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- A slab of Carrara marble can cost up to $400 per square meter. The luxury stone comes the Apuan Alps, a mountain range in northern Tuscany that stretches for 58 km and reaches 2,000 meters high. The Carrara quarries have produced more marble than any other place on Earth. The market as a whole is worth over €1 billion ($1.1 billion) and produces 4 million tons of marble every year, with 13,000 people involved.
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Inside Italy's $1 Billion Marble Mountains
I took a trip to Italy and it’s unbelievable how just to imagine how they pulled things like this off without modern technology. Mind blowing history
Italy is amazing. Sadly, the young Italians don't know that and have been fooled. I hope things will change ... Italy IS amazing.
Simple they pulled smaller pieces and everything took a lot longer mostly because the slaves were probably hungry 😂
they had whips. massive, massive whips.
Think about the narcissism it takes to spend precious time searching for the perfect marble used to make a statue of yourself.
Humans warship the worst people.
Repent to Jesus Christ!!!!
I actually live in Carrara. It’s such s small town, i’m so happy my city is being appreciated🥰🥰
Is your house filled with marble
Can you marry me?
@@GJT-nc4zk In Carrara area, all houses got door's and window's frames made of marble. Street's pavement and pic nik tables as well. Such a beautifful place.
Is it a town or a city?
Bro invite me to your house pls
Now I know why Italian Marbles, Italian maple floor, Italian tiles and Italian interior designs are very expensive & very popular.
Hippopotamus VEVO and the one used for floors and interior is actually the cheap one !!
Well they’re cheaper if you live in Italy. It’s just more expensive for other people since they have to ship it and stuff.
Imagine selling the mountain to the foreigners LOL. better to just export things like cellphone and cars.
It's looking quite MARBLEous
It's amazing to think that Michelangelo and his crew were able to get the marble.
Cole's World_2k19 his slaves*
How did they cut it back then?
@@grose2272 they use water pressure or other stronger rocks
@@adamelmahdali9049 italy was one of the first countries without slaves, English and Americans did it best ;)
@@grose2272 their hands. It's believed they took some string and cut the stone thay way :-)
Think that’s a hard job getting that rock!
Think about doing it without any power tools
Luckily it's quite soft
Cutting the rock is the easy part, moving it without cranes and vehicles, I imagine is difficult.
Nik depressedLasagna That’s Why they had slaves around the world 🌍 back than. So they want have to.🦶
@@littleray3899 doesn't it suck some ppl spent their entire lifes as slaves
Lmfao
My mother's paternal grandparents were from Carrara and he was a stone mason. My Great grandparents came to the US in the mid/late 1880s and moved to the Chicago area to do stone work on the 1893 Chicago World's Fair buildings. My grandfather was born in Chicago in 1893 and he became an architect. His older brother became a sculptor.
Too bad your dad didn't hold on to Italian passport, it would have given you so much advantages (being a member of EU is almost priceless, having the possibility to travel seamlessly from one culture to another as every nation in Europe has its own typical thing going on)
That's such a sick story... imagine the buildings that they took part in making. I absolutely love old architecture. I'm from Connecticut and we have some cool old buildings here, but everytime I go to NYC I'm blown away. There's so many buildings I want to go inside everywhere I go haha
An amazing story very interesting. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing such a historical story,salute to your ancestors 🙏
The 12-foot-high statue of Our Lady of La Vang has just recently been unveiled in Garden Grove, California. The total commision was at a whooping $12.6 million dollars. The highest commision for a statue I've ever seen.
That's shady af, church finance is such great money laundering vehicle
This is the type of content to wake up to with a nice cup of coffee :)
Destroying mountains? 🤨 Yeah nice.
Dude I’m doing the exact same
Im smoking kush and eating chips
its 12 at night here... its before bed
Or a cup of ramen
They went into creative mode and built a quartz mountain
Maira Athar Is this suppose to be funny?
Arxu Daddy XBL yo chill
@@Vel073 r/woooooosh
Idiot- Sama How was that a woooosh lmao? That was a shitty remark or a shitty joke If you ask me. Don’t be a normie and just say r/wooosh If you don’t know what It even means. I didin’t miss the joke (If it was one)
@@Vel073 quit being salty over a joke
I’m a stonemason,Carrara is lovely to work with..those statues are lovely!!
The water also works as a coolant to cool the points of the saws.
I wanted to say that. She has no idea haha
That‘s one point of using lubricants.
@@bloccboy6972 lol right, clearly kris, has no idea.
what is the different of coolant and lubricant?
@@youknowit5925 coolant makes sure machines don't overheat and lubricant prevents damage
They could’ve just gone to the nether and mined quartz there
Ikr
I like polished andesite and smooth stone too 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
Why use quartz when you can use cobble
ilagallday pffft, newb
Just use dirt
I like a ton of that marble. 2-day free Prime shipping okay?
WRO Hello this is John from Amazon the total would be 1 million with free shipping.
No problem, this will be sent via drone and dropped from the sky to you.
I will steal the box
$1 Billion dollars? Chump change for Jezz Bezos lol. Also for Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. etc.
J L haha thats a good one.
1:57 The shot of the interior of the marble cave is just breathtaking.
Some of those sculptures are just mind-blowing. Like holy shit.
I went to Italy and Ya it's mind blowing. The statue of David is just awesome
Soon they will have an NFT so everyone can own a piece.
"Like holy shit"
if you only knew how stupid you sound
@@barkebaat shut up seriously
@@rachealfaucher4520 :
"shut up seriously"
Because some semi-literate bint says so ?
I think not.
I think I got dirt in my eye because of this video
and it triggered my asthma even thou im not asthmatic
I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye
Mother Earth: “My mountains are beautiful”
Marble sculptor: “Hold your marbles”
...
You could say they lost their marbles
Hold my condom
Hold my chisel
I visited Carrara and the quarries on a school trip back in 2010. A lot of people there had tons of marble statues in their back yards, it was so surreal. And apparently they grind up the scrap marble into powder and put it into toothpaste as an abrasive
Such a wealth of knowledge I just consumed! Simply Brilliant!
Thousands of years from now, after maybe a cataclysm, future inhabitants of earth will wonder how did we get perfect giant slabs of marble and transport them thousands of miles away. Hehe
R B J Most modern text is saved digitally and paper will probably rot away before they could see it.
If humanity went extinct now, we would probably be gone without leaving many traces within about 10 000 years. The biggest trace we would leave would be all the radioactive waste from nuclear power plants that would melt down if we stopped caring for them.
R B J Good thing aliens know English
@@yourlocaltoad5102 Not really. Our plastic waste might still be around in the next 10,000 years, and whoever inherit the earth will still find plenty of ruins of concrete jungle that is our cities. Modern concrete with steel rebar can last quite a long time, you know. Probably only after a million years, that the trace of our civilization will be forever gone, save for occasional fossils and artifacts here and there.
Immanuel Herman Plastic will still be around, but due to erosion it will probably all have long turned into microscopic particles. And its safe to assume that over time some bacteria or fungus will adapt to eat it and so it will be broken down. Such adaptions have already happened and the estimation that such adapted organisms might spread worldwide isn’t too far-fetched, since plastic is a pretty abundant Ressource all around the world.
And against contrary beliefs, concrete breaks down faster than one might assume. In my area theres various bunkers from WW2 and some of them have clearly visibly started to break down due to erosion. It might take at least a few thousand years until they are completely gone, but I assume that within the next 5000 years one might not be able to guess that this once was a man-made structure. And other things such as cars or non-concrete buildings break down even faster. Let a car outside and within 50 years its a pile of rust with some bits of sun-damaged plastic in it.
I think the structures that will last the longest are probably bunkers that were built into mountains, as they aren’t usually subject to erosion or anything else. They will probably be gone once the whole mountain is gone.
But, regarding the start of this conversation: any notion of cars, planes or any other modern means of transportation will probably be gone within the next few thousand years
@@yourlocaltoad5102 Oh come on. Stonehenge is like 4000 years old, and it's in England, which is wet and gloomy all year round. Also Roman roads, aquaducts, amphitheaters, pantheon, villas, etc, we have tons of ancient structures that were neglected for centuries and still standing.
I really don't know where you get this idea that man-made structures can be easily destoyed by mere abrasion. Wind and rain need hundreds of thousand of years to grind down our structure. Even jungle vegetations that claim so many ancient temples and palaces, for many centuries, in India, Siam and south America, still unable to destroy said structures.
About telepathic lizard, slugs, etc I don't think that's relevant. I guess we will never know how long humanity may survive, and who will inherit this world after our demise.
Michaelangelo: Yeah let me sculpt a pp with that stuff
Maybe there were moore loose slabs back then
More*
Sometimes men just really like dick ;)
Gotta give that shit some curls
A small one 😭
All that beautiful Italian marble. It's so beautiful when laid in place. Amazing art work as well.
No, only beautiful when in nature
Time to figure out for how to *make artificial marble* in the factory :-)
It's made from the transformation of lime stone(CaCO3).Pressure and heat make the job.
Pretty sure there are already artificial marbles
When a mountain of marble is worth more than you
So this is why porcelain tile rise
Marble is metamorphosis of Granite.
For a small country I honestly think Italy has the richest culture, history on earth!!
Not a small country but ok
Too bad It lost a lot of wars in the past century they could’ve been a super power If they had voted for the proper leaders
Actar italy is not that big
@@Vel073 empire from 27 bc to 1453ad, that's 1400 years! No other has been that successful
@@LittlebigG its average really but not small
This Italian marble is beautiful, it’s durable, it’s structurally stable, it’s versatile, and it’s stainless. You can make anything you want out of it and it will last for centuries like Michelangelo’s sculptures. No wonder it’s so valuable.
It actually stains extremely easily and can be etched with something as common as lemon juice or toothpaste.
how act in water
@@jonathanellis8921 hilarious how ppl just pretend to be experts
@@thisgame2 Its actually true. Marble like every other natural stone does have porous structure and really easy to let any moisture and liquid sip through its porosity. Moreover, the calcite inside marble will readily become reactive towards acid liquid and etching will be followed. However, you can always seal the surface every year to retain its pristine look. Its really durable and beautiful stone which can last for hundred years of usage but its delicate too. Proper care will preserve the value
What's to dislike about this video ? I work in a specialty flooring store that sells this same Carrara marble and it's beautiful. This video (even for me) was informative and fascinating. Well, "haters are always going to hate something".
Sometimes environmental damage is a concern
Fun fact: the ancient Greek and roman statues were painted but it faded and now all the sculptors think they're supposed to be white
its not a fact
theyre well documented
*Give them to Spongebob*
and he'll create Masterpieces out of them
Duchi With just one slice!
Spongebob doesnt exist. Dont be dumb
@@EverlastGX r/whooooosh
EverlastGX he just made joke their is nothing to get so triggered about
Only if he doesn't believe in himself
Interesting to know where this resource is extracted from. Here in Argentina Carrara Marble is basically more common in old classic buildings than cement.
Tecker yep, but not all white marble is from Carrara. But we used to import granite from Brazil and export marble to Brazil and Argentina, and even today this trade still exist :)
Highly doubt it. $$$
Michel Angelo used this for his sculptures. Amazing 👏👏👏
Thank you for the excellent informative video.
Much appreciated. Peace & Love ❤️
Minas tirith must be somewhere around
Minecraft really improved their graphics...
They even added chainsaws in 1.14
Thats a mod
They use rtx 7000
this ist minecraft
@@currently_In_stealth_behind_u wait really? I thought it was minecraft.
That mountain will be gone soon
It is upsetting how you made your comment after 2019 and humans in 2020 are environmentally ignorant so they would not care about yo yr comment.
@@insectbite1714 are you saying I've done nothing to help?
@@insectbite1714 I'm sorry. Okay? I just stated a futuristic fact.
And 500 years on they're still standing, you deplete nature
maybe in 1000 years all the marble will be extracted...not really sure, maybe 2000
I cant belive how they make almost same kind of statues by hand !!! These people are legendary:)
Wish these kind of people stay forever
Cool, I always drive past these mountains when I am going to the airport. This mountain is really completely white so in the summer I am always how can there still be snow but then I remember the marble.
Am I the only one feeling a bit sad over the idea that I’ll never see what the marble mountain could’ve looked before it was tampered with by humans?
The parthenon in greece is a marble mountain, if ur interested, although it is poorly taken car off, its sad
Yes
Yes u are
@@rghbhj7971 cool story
i dont see any marbles
Did you genuinely feel that way before you even watched this
Awesome video, learned a lot!
Stunning material but dear god the art and craftsmanship of those sculptors is breath-taking.
My father's family in Vieques PR built a house about 30'x35' with the entire floor of 1"thick marble floor even the 30'x6' balcony on marble and it stayed so nice at least until I moved to USA,but I believe it still looking good today.
Better than wooden or ceramic floors.
That house must be around 70 yrs old and still solid on all concrete walls and roof 👌
Puerto Rico. ?
Yeah
@@jonathanturek5846 yeah, it's one of the oldest houses in Vieques and still looking nice
Problem is that marble doesn't last in cities. For example Opera House in Helsinki. Tiles are breaking and it costs a lot to maintain
@@rolandsallstrom well I believe that it depends on the house size and the ground the house are built on, if it's solid ground where the weight of the house don't sit in over the years with moisture then the marble has no need to snap, if it's on a foundation on softer soil then as the weigh sits the house unevenly then they break. A house sitting might not be obviously visible but it happens but like glass it doesn't need to bend like a nail for it to snap
Just stop and let it grow back. Make sure it has plenty of water and sunlight 😂🤣
Öskar M no
Delete this.
What.
@@KentuckyFriedDoge humans in 2020 are environmentally ignorant this commend got hundreds of likes in 2019
Go to hell..
During the Victorian period Cararra marble was a popular material to use for fireplace surrounds. I have restored many marble fireplace surrounds from that period in Boston. Most were made of Carrara marble. Beautiful stone.
I had no idea of this, and the Artistic Workmanship!!! WOW!!
I remember when I was first made aware of the Carrera Quarry. It's first seen in the opening credits of the movie, "The Agony and The Ecstasy" with Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison. Great Movie!!!!
The most amazing part about this marble is if you decided you really wanted to in this lifetime you could make something that lasted for thousands of years and brought joy and astonishment to people all that time and yet nearly all of you are convinced that because you aren't Michaelangelo you aren't capable of making something great. If you really wanted to anyone of you could make something so great from this marble that Michaelangleos name would be forgotten and your name would take his place as the great artist or sculptor of all time. Make something great or be forgotten but if you don't it's because only you got in your own way.
Wtf are you rambling on about? Anyone can make Michelangelo obsolete by creating something from Carrera marble ourselves, and our names would take his place? 🤦♂️ How about if we just give you the honor? I speak on behalf of the world that you rightfully deserve this since it was your idea. U don’t even know how to spell the man’s name.
@@Anthony-nv7gd Surely you didn't mispell Carrara wrong. Lol. All I'm saying is that people nowadays seem to look to the past as if what was done back then was outside of the capability of themselves in our modern times. Or like they themselves couldn';t make something that might be appreciated for the next hundred, thousand, or five thousand years. Some give me a block of marble and I would make something amazing or I'd die looking like a fool. I'm not even sure where I would get a block of Carrarra marble here in the United States and even if I could I probably could never afford it. I've wanted to try and carve a statue but it's definetly an art that's hard to become involved in. That's for sure.
So amazing and mesmerizing to watch this unreal piece of nature.
Beautiful report!!! Congratulations to Claudia Romeo!
Who gives a shit
4:57 my man drax staying so incredibly still that he is invisible to the naked eye.
Do they keep mining till the mountains are gone or do they have a present limit of marble they're allowed to take?
I think the theory is 188 marble mountains, if they deplete that it'll all be gone and you'll only get synthetic.
It's a good time to be alive, it makes you want marble in your house for how hard it is to get.
300 years from now, it'll all be gone.
Well i dont think marble will be used all up primordially because how little marble is actually produced
Second because quartz is arguibly better and we will not run out of that, much less to make countertops, cladding nor flooring, the earth crust is just gigantic
Very exciting short video, thank you for uploading and sharing. STATUARIO is my favourite. BIANCO CARRARA.........White marble is really classic.Jiuyanstone come from Taiwan.
I've seen homes and statues made of marble. Nothing beats the beauty of this rock.
First when i saw the mountains when i drove past carrara i tought it was snow but then i remembered i saw this video
girl- look at all those granite mountains :D
Marble's metamorphosed limestone
Look at all those chickens XD
Diorite
-4 Subscribers with a hammer addiction nether quartz
@@alvzcizzler diorite looks bad and I hate it.
that big statue at the end is amazing!
Amazing work bravo Italy
It’s amazing how much people will pay for a god damn rock
I mean what do you pay a lot for? Whats the point of money? Its amazing how much people enjoy a number on a screen.
Why do you care ?
BlindOut what if I told you this rock is unique and you can only find it in Carrara and nowhere else in the entire world ? And this stone is limited and sooner or later we will run out of it ?
Wait until you heard of rock buddies, basically a random rock then glued googly eyes to it
Yep, and the diamond hoax
I need to build my marble house before the mountain disappears 😁
No
Great video!
incredible sculpting
Simultaneously beautiful and sad
It’s always “good content” until your teacher plays it in 480p quality for class.
That rocks!! Simply marbleous
So beautiful sculptures
It's amazing the difference in likeability between the Italians and the french
I guess likable now but not so much when they were a far leftist government in the 1920s-1940's and joined Germany in ww2
@@Ohpeaches87 I'm talking about the people not the governments
4:35
*Lungs left the chat*
Marble does nothing to your lungs, imagine thinking you're more knowledgeable than these people
@@DOPEdwarf you're really not a fun person are you
@GlargBoy 3 second Google search I'm not going to do it for you idiot
Silica dust
DOPEdwarf actually, marble dust is also abrasive, it can cause skin irritation which, in the long term, can lead to scleroderma, a rare but progressive disease that causes the hardening and shrinking of the skin and connective tissue and which is, aggravated by the presence of silica dust.
Highly intelligent artworks ❤
Great presentation,
"In order to build, you have to destroy." -anonymous
It isn’t anonymous it is a paraphrasing of Mikhael Bakunin’s quote. The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
every act of creation is an act of destruction. pablo picasso.
eL Champorado the romans had to import white marble from the greeks, until they found out they had the purest form of it in Carrara. The staturario marble is unique, there is no other place on earth that you can find it, despite that Carrara is on of the poorest cities in Tuscany !
@@fredsavage4925 It's funny how you're all deluded and take platitudes, steal them, to fit your psychopathic mumblings. I'm sure Pablo Picasso didn't think about torturing and destroying people's lives when he said that quote. Or sexually harassing or stealing people's privacy or taunting. That's not creative..that's damaged goods. That's unnatural. That's a deluded mind trying to find a desparate way to make themselves relevant when the world screams at you that you are a freak. Toodles.
I live in San Jose, now I wanna go see that sculpture when its delivered
I want to travel to San Jose to go see it 😂
Same. Now I got to find it once its here. Hmmmm and how was it paid for? All the donations?
Where is it? I live in San Jose too?
She's now permanently homed at Our Lady of La Vang Shrine in Garden Grove, California. The whole project was $25 million dollars. Crazy amounts of donation
Looks amazing, producing this stuff at the moment...
My father told me in the 80s that Italians had bought marble from Estremoz/Portugal reselling it a Carrara marble.
- That’s Latin trustworthiness 😁
I love Michelangelo and all of his artwork.
Magnificently breathtaking!
All of this that I see on the video is
lil ducky: we love the earth
Business insider: inside Italy’s $1 billion marble mountain
The scale is stunning.
this was effin fascinating
Imagine before this was such a prized material, when no one claimed to "own it". Must of been nice for who ever took advantage of that
-IG NSMODESTO209 it’s quite an interesting story actually. The locals never even bothered about the marble, it was worthless for them. But the romans, they have been importing marble for decades from Greece and when finally they found out pure white marble in Italy, they started destroying the mountains. Problem was and still is, only the locals knows how to extract the marble from there, and it’s one of the most dangerous jobs !
Let's wait for Daily Dose of Internet
And then GordoGodx to react to it
I dont think he will put it in his vids
😂😂 watch it be in one of his videos
@@casey7128 Really? clip it pls
I looove this series
Excellent video! God bless!
Me: I should go to sleep
TH-cam: Watch this video about fancy rocks instead
Karyi me: that sounds like a great idea
"Each carrying 500 tong of marble"
Shiows a empty tractor
Jesus Ibarra they even used to do it by hand...block after block ! The amount of people that died in Carrara is 10 times the Covid19 lol
Not 500 tons its 50 tons of marble
Great Clip
So beautiful!
Getting MW2 Quarry map vibes
So the price is high not because of lack of supply, but artificially inflated
If they lower the price, it would reduce the supply, because everyone would be buying it.
actually logistics is a big problem and cutting the marble takes hours,
i think it takes 20hours to cut a block into something like 10 slabs
No you have to factor labor, freight, capital expenditures, and profit margins from multiple parties. It appears to be pretty intensive.
Beautiful stone!
Its an incredible monument to classical history and antiquity, almost seems a bit gauche to use it for a kitchen countertop in a upscale track home.
This is heaven for Michaelangelo and Greek Sculptors
Actually only the Roman and Italian artists used Carrara marble. The Greeks never arrived in Tuscany. They were Only in the south of Italy
This is the reason why we don’t deserve the earth, that mountain will be gone in next 20 years
It's so wonderful!🤩💙👍
You happy TH-cam , I finally watched it after 2 years of seeing it recommended
THAT'S MY TOWN 😭❤
Nice town
Abbie Smh ne Bella, te sei de massa
Talk about skill, Michelangelo's masterpieces were once a huge marble block. 😳
Crazy.vif you make a mistake you'd have to start over 😭😭😭
With a 50 ton block
@@dru4670 I know right!!!
офигеть как красиво!! какие же они молодцы! какие таланты!
really great
Keep hard working
How much for statue. It gotta be extremely expensive
Depends on the size and what type of marble. A statue for display is the only thing its useful for.
Italians should save this beautiful mountains not destroying them..
Superb performance!