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where the streets , which become so narrow that they seem like paths , lead us to the enchantment of the medieval village of Equi Terme with its thousand-year-old caves of karst origin close to one of the most majestic peaks of the Apuan Alps , Pizzo d ' Uccello . But it is when we reach the heart of the marble basin of Miseglia , Fantiscritti , that the landscape becomes truly surreal .
The Ponti di Vara silent witnesses of the ancient " Ferrovia Marmifera ", rise like stone cathedrals against the sky . Here , where for almost a century blocks of marble have travelled towards the port of Marina di Carrara , a silence now reigns broken only by the wind . The bond between man and Carrara marble has its roots in the mists of time . The Etruscans and Romans already appreciated the quality of this precious material , but it was during the Renaissance that the fame of Carrara marble reached its peak , when artists of the caliber of Michelangelo Buonarroti came here personally to select the most suitable blocks to be transformed by their genius into immortal works .
It was the autumn of 1497 when Michelangelo , just twenty-two years old , came to Carrara to obtain the material necessary to create the Pietà , preserved in the Basilica of
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