The Fantiscritti quarries are white marble quarries located in the municipality of Carrara . The whole, now a museum, was created forty years ago by Walter Danesi.

The name of the quarries is due to a bas-relief from the Roman period (III AD), carved on a rock wall and depicting three divinities (“fanti”) with a dedication under them in Latin (“writings”).

There is a railway station built for the line of the Carrara Private Marble Railway . It houses a “Museum of the quarries” and is often a stage and scenery for artists’ exhibitions.
There is also a historical overhead crane present there since the nineteenth century and was used to load the marble first on marble convoys, now on the trucks that transport the marble to Marina di Carrara.

CAVA MUSEO  in Fantiscritti is located in the heart of the Carrara marble quarries and was created by Mr. Walter Danesi after forty years of research.

The Museum is located in a scenic landscape immersed in the white marble that makes this place made of history and human effort unique.

Inside, life-size sculptures will show the ancient craft but also how they lived together with the family until 1960. Each object and find inside has a story to tell.