Colonnata, Carrara, and the Marble Mines | The White Mountain And The Fat

Colonnata, Carrara, and the white mountain that feeds them.

The road that goes up to Colonnata ends at Colonnata, and you understand this only when you arrive, because the village sits on a shelf of the mountain that the road was built to reach, and there is nowhere else for the road to go. I had driven up from the coast on a Tuesday in late spring with the windows open, the smell of the sea giving way after abo…