Carrara Marble Tour: Explore Real Caves

Embark on an exclusive adventure in the real Carrara marble cave with Lucca Transfers. Discover the fascinating history of marble extraction and production, and indulge in the authentic flavors of Colonnata. Book now!

Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Marble Caves of Carrara - You will have the unique possibility to visit a real Carrara Marble Cave.
    This is the only tour that will give you the opportunity to get inside a cave where, still now, they are extracting pure marble.
  • Colonnata - We will visit the little village of Colonnata: the place where the “lardo” (a very tasty kind of…
What's Included
  • Entrance ticket for guided cave tour
  • Driver/Tour Leader available
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Safety hard hat provided at cave
  • Guided tour on board
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
Additional Information

Experience the unique opportunity to enter a genuine Carrara marble cave.
It’s our pleasure to meet you! We’re both drivers and tour guides and can’t wait to introduce you to Tuscany’s hidden treasure!
We’ll pick you up in our professionally-equipped van from Lucca or Pisa and transit you to Carrara’s mountainous terrain. There, we’ll arrive at the cave…

Location
Porta a Lucca
Largo Parlascio
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Martin_r96
Oct 15, 2025
Carrera Marble trip - Fantastic trip and most enjoyable! The guide was very curteous and well informed and had great ideas on engaging us with the other tour members . It was a small party and the executive transporter certainly not a van as described!. The internal trip in the Carrara mine was part of a larger tour, but that all went seamlessly and was very informative - Overall a great experience and I would not hesitate to recommend this guide
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Leigh_w
Oct 1, 2025
Just Do The Tour! - This tour was fabulous. The guide was knowledgeable, friendly, and easy to understand. The site itself, the history, and the techniques used I'll be talking about for a long time.
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Cynthia_f
Sep 26, 2025
Truly a one of a kind... - Truly a one of a kind experience. The cave tour was amazing as you could see everything they do and you are surrounded by marble. Thomaso provided an informative and fun filled van ride. We loved our lunch at a small village restaurant. It was an amazing day.
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Travelgirlds
Jun 8, 2025
Friendly Guide and interesting Small Group Tour. - My sister and I had a wonderful time with Raffaele on this once in a lifetime experience. I've always wanted to see the Carrara Marble cave, so loved the opportunity to get to do that. We were picked up in Lucca in a very comfortable van. He shared great information about the surrounding area and we had a pleasant lunch experiencing the special "lardo" sandwich. I also appreciated the small,friendly group. Raffaele's english was excellent and he was kind enough to let me practice my limited Italian.
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Dlhanna5446
Jun 1, 2025
Great! - Great experience! Fascinating to be inside the mountain surrounded by marble! Raffle was an excellent guide. Very enthusiastic and very knowledgeable!! We highly recommend this tour
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Perry_s
Mar 20, 2025
Perfect - It would be impossible to have had a better experience on our tour of the Carrera marble Quarry. Tomaso could not have been more knowledgeable, helpful, and friendly. We learned a lot about the quarry, the area and even his insights into Italy itself. He then took us to a small village called Colonata where we had a wonderful lunch of Lardo and other meats, cheeses and pasta. He took his time with us, didn’t hurry and even stopped into a special bakery on the way back to Lucca. An absolutely fantastic day and one that we would absolutely recommend.
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Amanda_g
Oct 22, 2024
Really interesting tour with the amazing Rafaelle - Rafaelle was the perfect guide on this tour, sharing insightful and informative commentary about the surroundings, history and culture of the Tuscany region. The small group (6 of us) was a great size, although we did form a larger group inside the amazing Carrara marble cave which was led by an employee of the marble quarry (the sensational Sonia). Great to learn about the marble quarry process in general and to visit this quarry that only extracts marble for artwork purposes. We also visited the village of Colonnata and tried their famous lardo di colonnata. Rafaelle was engaging, professional and an overall nice guy. Thanks for the personal recommendations back in Lucca. Grazie mille 🙏
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Mary_k
Oct 18, 2024
Carrera marble - Raffelle was our guide snd thr highlight of our tour. Very personable snd knowledgable of the different towns all the way. Answered all of our questions about culture. Pleasant , enjoyable snd fun!
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755arianaa
Oct 12, 2024
Breathtaking - What a beautiful experience!!! I saw images of Carrara marble quarries in Google a few years ago and knew I had to come visit Lucca. Our tour guide Raffael was welcoming and well versed in his knowledge of the area we drove through as well as the Carrara marble quarries. Not only did we see the quarry from the outside but they also brought us inside of the mountains which was breathtaking. After that, we were brought to the town called Coronata, where we had lunch and some wine. It was a lovely day and an experience I’ll never forget
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Kathybb4230wm
Oct 3, 2024
Amazing Carrara Marble Tour - A wonderful tour with Marco of the Carrara Quarry! This is a tour that should not be missed. We went on a rainy day but the site was still spectacular and very interesting. The tour finished at a hilltop village for a local lunch of bread, cheese, meats, lardo, vegetables and wine. Memorable!
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From $127
up to 15 guests
2 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).