health-giving waters There are two spas in the province of Massa-Carrara: Equi Terme, on the Northern slopes of the Apuan Alps, and San Carlo. In the Garfagnana, easily reached from Lucca, there is the important spa of Bagni di Lucca. Equi Terme is a typical medieval village in a splendid setting dominated...

What you can see shinning brightly in the gullies on the steep slopes of the Apuan Alps is not necessarily snow, but probably the ravaneti, the screes of marble debris at the foot of the quarries that were already being worked in Roman times and were frequented by the great scupltors and architects who...