We visited the Carrera marble quarry, or one of over 120 such quarries. In 2000 years of mining marble, they have only extracted 6% of the total marble. You can get a sense of the scale from the small orange digging machine in the upper right portion of the picture.
This is where the marble for Michelangelo's David statue came from
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