Appointment with history and tradition to the historical re-enactment involving the marble quarry workers of the village
of Gorfigliano on the slopes of Mount Pisanino.
During the event is shown the technique of cutting blocks of marble with the wire coil with water and sand just as they did up to 60 years'.
The event is the only one of its kind in the province and in the basin of the Apuan Alps.
It starts with the addition of the helical wire, that often the elderly kept secret to younger so-called Bocia.
Once triggered, the motor went to the sawing of marble through a clutch which operated two lines of wire independent; Classic-cut and pulley pierced with a mound that was used to cut the lock even from the mountain side with the help of water and sand. To cut the same block, with current technology, the time has been reduced by about five to six hours per quarter of an hour today.
After cutting, the lizzatura mimed gestures and calls of ancient memory. And then the hand-pushed trolleys decauville that were used to transport the debris to the marble quarry and the activation of Grappo, manual winch that was a slip chain useful to the displacement of the blocks, other heavy work.
PARCO DEL MARMO, MARBLE PARK
Gorfigliano, loc. Segheria, Parco del Marmo
2016 August 14
at 3:30pm
Free admission