At the foot of striking marble quarries in central Italy's Apuan Alps sits the village of Colonnata (pictured above) – a ...

But no part of the park is as celebrated, or arguably as stunning, as Taroko Gorge, an 18-kilometer canyon cut through towering walls of colored marble. Four million years ago, the Eurasian ...

The luxury stone comes the Apuan Alps, a mountain range in northern Tuscany that stretches for 58 km and reaches 2,000 meters high. Marble has been carved here since the Ancient Roman times ...

At the Stonex Art Soirée in Kishangarh, I was introduced to the true artistic value of marble; and how it becomes an avenue of design.