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Environmentalists say the Tuscan quarries at Carrara that supplied the marble for Michelangelo’s Pietà are being overusedThey produced the sublime wonders of Michelangelo’s David and Pietà statues but the marble quarries of Tuscany have become a battleground between industry and environmentalists.A bitter dispute has broken out between environmental campaigners, who say the quarries above the town of Carrara are a blot on the landscape and contribute to dangerous levels of erosion, and the companies that hack the stone out of the Apuan Alps.
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