SERENA STONE

This kind of sandstone is usually extracted in some areas in Tuscany and some very important Italian writers talked about it in the past such as Giorgio Vasari in 1500. It seems that Dante called it the “macigno” i.e. big block of stone (The hell XV, 63).

It was used for the building of works of art and famous buildings such as the Uffizi, the church of Saint Lorenzo and Saint Spirit in Florence. Long before it has been used by the Etruschi to build the walls of Fiesole.

The sandstone is also used for the floors. Florence, Siena and Arezzo are mainly floored with this sandstone..

Here on the left are some of the different workings.

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