Video footage inside a black portoro marble quarry in the province of La Spezia by Be marmi of Carrara (Tuscany – Italy), a company that works portoro marble – for contacts, call Antonio Bernardini now at: (+39)339 7336685
Portoro is an intense and brilliant black marble, with white and golden veins, extracted only in the Province of La Spezia (Liguria – Italy), especially in the Portovenere area. Portoro marble is a fine variety of Italian marble, one of the most beautiful of the so-called polychrome marbles.
This peculiarity makes it a unique marble, irreplaceable as an ornamental material.
Portoro is a real natural work of art . A very precious marble, with a characteristic gold color and embellished with delicate golden veins.
Such marble immediately brings luxury to mind , which is why it is used in very fine and refined environments, such as five-star and ultra-luxury hotels, luxury villas, residences and prestigious shopping centres.
An example is the Capitolare Tower in Portovenere (in Italy). In the photo above, we can appreciate a black portoro marble table inside the famous Tower (hover over the photo to enlarge it).
This is why black portoro marble is so precious and has a very high price.
There are four different qualities:
Extra Nero Portoro marble slab present in the BE Marmi warehouse in Carrara (Tuscany)
Therefore, its preciousness is precisely due to the limited availability that distinguishes it, as it can be found – as already written above – only in the Portovenere area in Liguria.
It is not known precisely when the extraction and use of black portoro marble began, but in the nearby and ancient Roman city of Luni (located between the provinces of La Spezia and Massa Carrara), architectural works containing slabs and other small parts made of portoro marble.
In the 12th century the Genoese used portoro marble for the construction of supporting columns and facades. In 1500 Cosimo of Medici increased the use of portoro and in 1600 Giò Batta Morello had a contract with the Olivetan monks of Portovenere, for the exploitation of the Palmaria quarries with a payment of 13 Genoese money for each “cartload” extracted.
Later the monks tried to cancel the contract for the little profit they received, but found great difficulty in doing so.
In Rome it was used for the interiors of various churches such as San Pietro in Vincoli, San Silvestro in Capite, San Paolo outside the walls, San Giovanni in Laterano, San Lorenzo outside the walls.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the use of black portoro marble began to spread outside Liguria as well, particularly in France, Belgium and Switzerland to embellish palaces and castles such as those of Versailles, Marly and Compiegne.
Finally, it is said among the grandparents from La Spezia (from La Spezia) that they all had a double bedroom furnished with bedside tables and a chest of drawers with a portoro marble slab on top! The famous glossy black marble with those streaks of golden yellow and intense white.
PS: the author of the article himself has, in his bedroom, an old chest of drawers with a beautiful slab of black portoro marble on it.
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Video footage inside a black portoro marble quarry active in the province of La Spezia (Liguria), by Be Marmi of Carrara (Tuscany – Italy), a company that works black portoro marble.
For contacts, call Antonio Bernardini now at: (+39) 339/733.66.85. Or use the following contacts: Carrara sales office:
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