Quarries & Granite

THE GRANITE AND QUARRY ON ELBA ISLAND

The story of the granite on the island of Elba brings us to the western side of the island, near the beach of Cavoli, just after a steep road in a few hundred yards from a clearing, you'll find a granite quarry. Its shape resembles a Schiffmit a length of about four meters and a width of two meters. So we called the Quarry, the ship "La Nave". Inside, we find that the details of the masses are adorned with ornamental friezes. Oral tradition tells us that this artifact should be brought to the sixteenth century to Florence to be placed in the Boboli Gardens to.

Another important finding is granite Seccheto the way to Valle Buia. After a few hundred meters on the small path that leads us to the majestic granite column, you will see the columns are about 8-9 meters long. Through oral history, we know that they should be placed in the twelfth century to Pisa, in a cathedral. This message is shared by Sebastian Lombardi, quoted by the historian from Ughelli (Annalium de rebus Pisanorum years 947 ad annum 1170) that in 1159 "from the quarry Seccheto, three columns, created by the work of St. John writes far from Pisa Leonetto Cionetti and Arrigo Lancellotti. On the beach of Lacona to 2-3 meters, there were a few decades ago three columns of considerable size on the seabed. They are now covered with sand. This story makes us realize that the area in Cavoli and Seccheto full of quarries and was rich in stone experts was. In fact, we find the granite of the island of Elba in the Pantheon and the Colosseum.