Driving into Custonaci, the sheer, geometric cuts in the hillsides immediately reveal its defining industry. This Trapani municipality is Europe's second-largest marble basin, operating around 100 active quarries and fifty industrial plants.
Home to 5,392 residents in the north-western corner of Sicily, Custonaci is fundamentally a working town. Officially dubbed the International City of Marbles, its landscape and local economy revolve entirely around heavy stone extraction.
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