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8 unusual facts about Pietrasanta


Cesare Galeotti

Cesare Galeotti (5 June 1872, Pietrasanta - 19 February 1929, Paris) was an Italian composer, conductor, and concert pianist.

Dina Merhav

In 1984 she attended the stone sculpture seminar in Pietrasanta, Italy.

Fountain of Neptune, Rome

The lower part of the basin consists of white marble and the upper part of the local stone from Pietrasanta.

Fredrik K.B.

After several weeks in the mountains, his first sculpture "Albert" was finished and he managed to carry it down to Pietrasanta, a town said to be a world capital of sculpting.

Lars Widenfalk

An installation Cross My Arms, St. Agostino, Pietrasanta, Italy, in 2011, consisted of twelve rather like sculptures of maidens with their arms crossed over the chest, made of white marble.

Mina alla Bussola dal vivo

Mina was the first Italian woman to record a live album during her performance at the Bussola, a popular night club in Marina di Pietrasanta, Versilia, Tuscany, Italy.

Morten Søndergaard

They lived together in Italy for 8 years before moving back to Copenhagen, first in the town Vinci, Tuscany, then in Pietrasanta.

Replicas of Michelangelo's David

The marble used for this replica was taken from Michelangelo's own quarry near Pietrasanta.


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Julie Rotblatt-Amrany

While in Pietrasanta, Rotblatt met her future husband, Israeli artist Omri Amrany.


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