carrara lizzatura 2016

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The Lizzatura is the method by which since Egyptian, until the sixties of the twentieth century, were transported from the quarry to the valley the marble blocks boxes. The term lizzatura derives directly from the sled on which the blocks, in a particular way linked, were slid on wooden beams along the streets from the quarry loading platform brought to the square downstream exhaust.