The Art of Stonemasonry - Past and Present

Stonemasonry in Curitiba In Curitiba, in spite of some register of works in rocks in the beginning of the 19th century, the activity of carving and stonemasonry became significant only when the 20th century dawned, when the great urbanization in the city developed. From 1900 all the streets began to receive granite and diabase for surfacing. Around 1920 important examples of funerary art in granite appeared. It is also from that epoch the sidewalk known as petit-pavé or Portuguese sidewalk, made of polyhedrical blocks of dolomitic marble with diabase inserted

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