Monte Sagro (1749 m) is a mountain located in the northern part of the in the Apuan Alps or Carrara Mountains, in Tuscany, central Italy, overlooking the city of Carrara.

Etymology

The name comes from the Latin word sacrum meaning "holy" as it was a sacred place for the ancient Liguri tribe as there were nine stele statues discovered in 1905, together with the Monte Bego at the modern boundary between France and Italy.

Geology

Monte Sagro consistsmainly of layers of banded limestone, marble, grezzoni and permian schist.

The elevation is from the uplift of these rocks and metamorphosis that compressed the limestone to marble and further erosion that shaped the mountain to what it is.

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