The role of marble between as an economic resource and cultural uses in the industrial tourism context

Abstract

Marble industry, in fact, is more than an economic extractive activity, is also a cultural asset. The raw material, after be worked and transformed, turn in to a artistic or ornamental and contemplative element, a piece of art, a part of a monument, etc. A element that exist everywhere, from the ancient times, the Renaissance, and whit the twentieth century massif exportation, for all the world, then, becomes a universal reference of a specific territory. Also, generated a way of life, a very own community around an ancestral practice and a heritage based in immaterial knowledge, in a production structures and in a muted landscape.