Societa Cooperativa Artieri Alabastro

Interesting

Worth visiting excellent display and hard not to admire the skill and workmanship. Must admit to purchasing some items for home.

Interesting Shop.

An interesting shop, also selling all kinds of 'alabastro (albaster) items, from small souvenirs, to lamps. Albaster is a rather soft kind of natural stone, often used for carving. A nice place to v...

Interesting visit but be aware of the dust if craftsmen at work making hand-carving alabaster

We went as part of a group and looked around at hand-carved alabaster objects on the shelves and in the storeroom. There were around 30 of us crammed into the small shop, but then the craftsman began...

Souvenirs

Very big schop of souvenirs at every price category. You can buy a art-deco vase for 2000 euro and you can buy an alabaster paper for 3 euro.

The people of Alabaster

Original Text

Volterra is a typical Tuscan-style village, quite high has very good views of Tuscan. They are specialists in the work of the alabaster and perform real art works. They worth l...