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The latomie of Marzamemi are among the largest open-pit quarries from the pre-Hellenistic period in all of Sicily, from which the ancient Greeks extracted large blocks of calcarenite to erect temples or other buildings. Today the area of the latomie lies almost entirely submerged due to rising sea levels over the past millennia. The location of the quarries close to the shoreline is explained by the choice of transport system by boats. The geometric cuts in the rock attest to workings conducted on several overlapping levels, a sign of intensive and continuous use over time. Scattered almost everywhere on the plane of the latomia, or stacked close to the breakwater, hundreds of calcarenite blocks can still be observed.
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