The arcades with black slate floors from Lavagna
The small village of Lavagna is famous throughout the world for the quality of its black stone, slate, which was quarried in the mountains behind it.
This “black gold” was also used extensively as decoration and as floor tiles.
As in this portico, located in via Dante Alighieri (near the Basilica of Santo Stefano), where the floor is covered with this polished stone.

Do you know the alleys of Lavagna? Add a comment or go to the bottom of the site to read what other visitors have written.

Photo taken with Canon EOS RP and lens Canon RF 24-50.

Here is the spot where this porch is located:

Slate (also called Lavagna stone) is a metamorphic rock of sedimentary origin (Metamarna in pumpellyite-actinolite facies). It is a variety of calcareous-clayey schists easily divisible into thin, flat, light, impermeable and weather-resistant sheets, resulting from low-grade metamorphism of sedimentary rocks formed by the deposition of a very fine silt (marl) due to the erosion of ancient reliefs. Slate is a rock classified as soft or semi-hard. It is a compact stone, leaden-black in color and easily workable.
Continue and learn more on Wikipedia

The arcades with black slate floors from Lavagna – Les portiques au parquet en ardoise noire de Lavagna – Los pórticos con suelo de pizarra negra de Lavagna – Os pórticos com piso de ardósia preta de Lavagna – Die Portiken mit dem schwarzen Schieferboden von Lavagna – Những mái hiên với sàn đá đen của Lavagna