Carrara: Exclusive Marble Cave Tour Adventure in a 4x4
Overview
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2 hours
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Get ready for an authentic adventure inside the famous marble caves in Carrara. Jump on the Land Rover and explore the caves with your friendly local guide.
Look inside the vast white wounds that open up on the wild slopes of Carrara, and learn how the quarries have provided marble to towns and cities across Italy for more than 2,000 years. Hear about the sweat of the men who mined the marble used to build the Pantheon and Trajan's Column in Ancient Rome, along with many sculptures of the Renaissance.
Get in touch with the people, places, and machinery of an ancient tradition. Drive to different active quarries, up to 1,000 meters above sea level and hear how the noble stone is mined. Get detailed explanations about the old and modern excavation process. On our way back to Carrara, to taste a sample of the famous Lardo di Colonnata IGP.
Additional Info
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Wear comfortable shoes and clothes
Our tours will still operate in spite of bad weather. As long as if it is safe.
Not recommended for travelers with acrophobia
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What‘s Included
Insurance (by law)
1 licensed guide service
Tasting a sample of Lardo di Colonnata
Marble quarries tour
1 tour by 4x4 vehicles
everything not mentioned in inclusions
What To Expect
Stadio dei Marmi
Meeting point in the Stadio dei Marmi area in Carrara, meeting with the guide, and start of the tour. From here we begin the ascent among the vineyards of the green Candia Hills (famous for giving birth to a fine and original tasting Wine) along a route between the sea and the imposing Apuan Alps that is truly spectacular. We continue along an up-and-down dirt section until we find the asphalt road again, which leads directly into the heart of the Carrara Marble Quarries.
Carrara
Explore the most precious of Carrara's treasures: the white marble quarries. Aboard comfortable and powerful 4×4 jeeps, our guide will take you over the peaks of the Apuan Alps. Up to the marble basins at an altitude of 1,000 meters, to discover the magical place where Michelangelo found the block that gave birth to his world-famous Pieta.
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Carrara: Exclusive Marble Cave Tour Adventure in a 4x4
Reviews
175 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Could have been a tragedy, salvaged decently
Emily G,
Aug 8, 2025
- Viator
3.00I booked a 3 pm tour several weeks in advance. We arrived pretty early at the meetup spot. 2:24 pm. I speak with someone and he says they’re about to leave on the 2:30 tour. So, we go to find a restroom (which there is nothing around, mind you). We come back around 2:47 and there is no one there. I check my what’s app and there is a message from 2:38 “where are you? The tour is starting in 1 minute”. What? So I text back and they’re telling me the only thing they can do is refund me. I say that I made a trip especially to see this place. Which is true, we passed by Carrara last year and said we’ll come next year. And we had a special day trip with train planned to go. I would be losing out on a lot of time and money. So, they were very nice in getting someone to pick us up around 3 and drove us to meet the rest of the tour. We got there in 15 minutes. However, I felt really bad for the people already on the tour waiting for us. That’s not very kind to them. What if they had other plans? How did they not know earlier that the tour wasn’t going to happen at 3? What if I wasn’t there earlier? Anyway, so then during the tour, it was awe inspiring and everyone was very nice. However, the English was limited to the basic explanations and the other two languages were seemingly getting a lot more detail than we were. Overall, they salvaged the trip decently, but still felt like we missed out on parts of it at the beginning and felt like the rest of the guests were upset with us when it wasn’t our fault.
Beautiful tour with 4x4 Jeep...
Frans S,
Aug 1, 2025
- Viator
5.00Wonderful tour with 4x4 Jeep in DE hills of Carrara marble quarry with EN wonderful and enthusiastic guide, Lucca. -Thank you.
Beautiful experience
Jan G,
Jun 29, 2025
- Viator
5.00Very interesting, we got good explanation from a nice guide and driver wonderful experience definitely recommended.
Nice guidance to...
Hans V,
Jun 28, 2025
- Viator
5.00Fine guidance to the starting point , impressive tour , with clear explanations. Tasting “ largo” was also nicely presented
Very neat tour
Kelley L,
Jun 27, 2025
- Viator
4.00The marble mines themselves were incredible—seeing them up close and getting to go inside one was such a unique experience. The tour was overall really cool and definitely worth doing. My only feedback is that our group was split into three cars, and while two of the guides spoke English, our driver only spoke Italian. We completely understand that we’re in Italy, but the tour listing did mention English-speaking guides, so it was a bit disappointing to miss out on a lot of the information being shared. Thankfully, another guest in our car spoke both languages and helped translate here and there, which we really appreciated—but of course, that wasn’t their responsibility. We would have loved to be in a car where we could understand more of what was being explained during the ride.
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