Things to find in Italy

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• Carrara marble Gem & mineral ground
  The whitest, most famous stone in the history of art. The quarries in the Apuan Alps above Carrara, Italy, have been cut since Roman times, and Michelangelo climbed these mountains himself to choose the block that became the...
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• Poveglia Haunted place
  A small island in the Venetian lagoon with one of the darkest histories in Italy: a quarantine station for plague ships, where the sick and dying were sent, and later a mental asylum. It is said the soil is half ash. The island...
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• The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo Haunted place
  Beneath a monastery in Sicily stand roughly eight thousand mummified dead, not lying but STANDING in their own clothes along the corridors, hung on the walls in rows by profession: monks, lawyers, soldiers, children. Palermo...
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