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This rugged mountain range within the Parco Regionale delle Alpi Apuane (
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mitages and hilltop villages. Its most spectacular sights are the slopes providing a backdrop
to the town of Carrara (
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)
, which are scarred with marble quarries that have been
worked since Roman times. Come here to sample
lardo di colonnata
(thinner-than-wafer-
thin slices of local pig fat), one of Tuscany's greatest gastronomic treats, in the tiny village
of Colonnata (
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)
.
