Marble is the only raw material that Italy exports in the world, everything starts from the Apuan Alps that dominate Carrara and that, thanks to the extraction basins just above the city, have always made it a unique panorama. The marble activity is however also widespread in other neighboring areas to the south and east of this city universally known for its product. Marble is rich and generates business and work, attracts artists and generates creativity in an open circuit. In recent years, however, the contradictions have begun, Carrara is became poor and unkempt, the extraction technology has evolved so much that many speak of environmental catastrophe due to the exploitation of the mountains, a lot of transformation work is done overseas, but a series of good energies play still in favor of these areas in the extreme north of Tuscany.