This is probably the coolest thing we’ve ever done. Combine Pirates of the Caribbean, Phantom of the Opera, and that restaurant that only serves mushroom soup and flatbread and you get The Magnificent Marble Mine.
Once a mine that provided material to make glossy pages for magazines (they used National Geographic as an example, after which I stood up and proudly informed the guide that Cameracraft magazine has MUCH better print quality than NatGeo!), that part of the mine was closed since people aren’t using paper as much. So it’s now a tourist attraction, where boats float above crystal-clear water filtered by the limestone above to a chandelier-lit cove where we can dine and learn how it only took 3 people to work the mine (not including administrative overhead).
A video about this appears in my blog post about this trip:
here.
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