tinos – Kallisthos https://kallisthos.com/en/ The Natural Stone Company Mon, 19 Oct 2020 17:53:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.14 https://kallisthos.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-favicon-1-32x32.png tinos – Kallisthos https://kallisthos.com/en/ 32 32 The Green of Tinos https://kallisthos.com/en/the-green-of-tinos/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 05:34:00 +0000 https://kallisthos.com/the-green-of-tinos/ Tinos marble certainly stands out: It is of dark green colour, and heavily veined. It is actively quarried on the Isle of Tinos, which is part of the Cyclades in Greece. Interestingly enough, the island itself is also a source for white marble.

Tinos has been used since antiquity; however, the quarries on the island had been abandoned for many centuries, and they were reopened only in the 19th century.

Considerable amounts were exported to England and the USA, where they form parts of such famous buildings as the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, or St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Cathedral in London.

Tinos can be obtained in reasonably large blocks up to 6m in length, and its strong texture also allows for a gleaming polish.

Evidently, the Green of Tinos marble can be used for sculptures, tiles, cladding, and many architectural applications.

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