Botticino Classico marble for the monument to italian unification

Botticino Classico marble in the past and in the present

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On June 4, 1911 this Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II was officially opened in Rome.

Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti referred to it as "A marble anthem to the homeland", "an epic poem written on pages of marble and bronze that will live on through the centuries". It tooks 7 years of discussion, 26 years of work and 40 thousand cubic meters of Botticino and Mazzano marble to complete.

Botticino marble was chosen for the monument by a special commission on July 2, 1889 because of its strength, appearance and the quality guaranteed by local stone-working businesses and craftsmen.

Supplying the marble for the greatest monument to Italian unification represented a remarkable opportunity for the Botticino marble area, driving development which has continued apace since then.

The Altare della Patria owes a great deal to Brescia and its marble: politician Giuseppe Zanardelli, who promoted and worked on the great project right from the outset, was from Brescia; Angelo Zanelli, the sculptor chosen to create the Altare della Patria frieze, was from Brescia; the businesses that supplied the marble needed were from Brescia, as were the quarrymen and stonemasons who worked on it.

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      Founded in 1987, the Consortium of Botticino Classico Marble Producers associates the leading local Producers, qualifying itself as the main promoter of the culture and quality of Botticino Classico Marble in the world. Due to new challenges from competitors marbles, exported by developing Countries, in 2005 the Consortium has registered a Collective Mark of Origin, the first one applied to the stone market, in Italy, in the European Union and in 22 non-EU countries. With the registration of the Mark of origin, the Consortium provides a formal and substantial guarantee that products, from the area covered by the denomination, are produced according to the most stringent quality controls and pursuant to European regulations. The Consortium is now in the global market, a reality that has the ambition and hope to revive the "Made in Italy" in a field of thousands of years of tradition and cultural values​​.)

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