Italian marble: A beginners guide
When it comes to marble production, you cannot find a country better to import from more experienced than Italy. Whether you’re thinking about ancient Roman villas, sculptured statues of the Renaissance or the imported materials of today, marble and Italy seeming go hand in hand.
Whether it’s the slave-driven infrastructure under the Ancient Romans or today’s industrial sector that is a crucial part of the country’s construction industry, Italian marble is an intricate part of the Italian economy. Today the 
industry employs over ten thousand people and has an annual turnover of two billion Euros.
The main factor that has made the Italian marble industry so successful for centuries has been quality. Each region, be it Tuscany, Veneto or Sardinia produces marble with its own unique characteristic.
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Italian marble is also responsible for the most famous and recognisable pieces of sculpture in the world, such as Michelangelo’s David that used Bianco Statuario marble of Carrara.
Italian marble is still one of Italy's main forms of export and when you visit many very high end properties in main cities, Italian marble is often the chosen type of flooring and a certain expectation is sometimes places on having Italian marble for the best quality. Many monuments in Italy in fact use marble including some of the most famous in Italy.
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