Pietrasanta

Pietrasanta

Pietrasanta, Tuscany

Pietrasanta, which means Holy Stone, is mostly known for its sculpture. Every year, and all year, sculptors arrive from the far corners of the globe to work the white stone from the very quarries that Michelangelo used. It is here where you will find the palpable energy of creation. In studios peppered all around the… (more)

Rubbish or Gold Mine?

Pietrasanta, Tuscany

Like clockwork every winter, all along the Northern Italian West coast, a great sludge of sea earth has made its way onto the once soft sandy beach. The debris, composed mostly of seaweeds, shells and sea worn wood has collected in literal hills disguising the shore from the sea. But there’s gold in them there… (more)

A Small Town with a Big Art

Pietrasanta

Sitting in the piazza in Pietrasanta you may notice something a bit different. First, there are many non-Italians even though this little town is in the heart of Tuscany. And second, those Internationals are often all covered in dust … marble dust. The marble excavated from the Apuan Alps is the reason for their being… (more)