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Arzo Quarries

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Arzo Quarries

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Arzo Quarries

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Location: Ticino, Switzerland

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1. From the Cave di Arzo to Monte Orsa and Monte Pravello – tour between Switzerland and Italy

8.73km

03:29

580m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.

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2. Croce✝️Monte Pravello 1015⛰️ – Swiss border🇨🇭 loop from Meride

13.1km

05:25

850m

860m

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3. Croce✝️Monte Pravello 1015⛰️ – Swiss border🇨🇭 loop from Morcote

15.4km

06:29

990m

Expert hike. Very good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.

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Wiro L.

September 26, 2019

On the homepage of the tourist office Mendrisiotto and Basso Ceresio, the quarries of Arzo, which have been closed down since 2009, are mentioned as "monumento del lavoro" - as a memento of the hard work of stonemasons.

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Matteo Bernasconi

April 4, 2019

Ancient quarries of Arzo, where the famous Arzo marble was extracted and exported all over the world. Today these spaces have been "redeveloped" and open to the public.

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Antonino Pigafetta

February 28, 2024

“We are alone” is the result of team work from the conception of the various subjects to the final installation. As a stone for their formation, the one defined with the traditional term of "Macchia Vecchia" was used, the oldest geologically speaking, whose aesthetic characteristics consist in the great variation of colors that overlap on a gray "base", in a very varied in intensity and quantity, colors ranging from red, to yellow, to green, to brown, purple, white, colors determined by the chemical/physical and dynamic phenomena that were the basis of the formation of this rock over millions of years years.

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Arzo Quarries

1. From the Cave di Arzo to Monte Orsa and Monte Pravello – tour between Switzerland and Italy

2. Croce✝️Monte Pravello 1015⛰️ – Swiss border🇨🇭 loop from Meride

3. Croce✝️Monte Pravello 1015⛰️ – Swiss border🇨🇭 loop from Morcote

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