Tourist guides, guided visits for groups to the Colonnata and lardo tasting. Itinerary accessible by coach of all sizes.
Highlights
Tour Details
Tourist guide, guided visit to the Colonnata marble mines and Lardo di Colonnata tasting a unique local cold cut.
Itinerary
Meet the tour guide and depart to the world’s largest marble quarries, during the journey to Colonnata valley your local guide provides relevant information about the history, the economy and the geology of the territory.
Once arrived visit an open cast quarry in order to learn more about both modern and ancient methods of marble excavation.
Afterward, experience a breathtaking and unique 4×4 tour. Reach the marble mountain top and see what’s going on in the working caves. Admission fee.
At the end have a stopover at “La Piana” site, where to admire an interesting collection of tools, pictures and a scale model of a marble quarry.
Free time for visiting the marble souvenir shops follows.