F.lli Gaspari di Gaspari Massimiliano e Romano Snc, Ascoli Piceno

F.lli Gaspari di Gaspari Massimiliano e Romano Snc: what to see nearby

A few kilometers from the city, on the Colle San Marco plateau, is the travertine quarry of the Giuliani family. Mario Giuliani arrived there on June 16, 1952, after searching for deposits by climbing up from Palombare, and in the western part of the plateau he found good sediments left by the Gran Caso stream. He was among the first to quarry travertine and start a business up there, where at the time there were only meadows and a hermitage set in the rock.

The thirteen quarries of the San Marco area, at the height of their activity between the sixties and the eighties, are all disused today. The Giuliani quarry has become the open-air studio of the sculptor Giuliano Giuliani, who works travertine and leaves works in progress in various corners of the quarry. In summer the plateau hosts cultural events.