Rosalia

Marmor Sagarium, a stone taking its name from the river Sagarios along which the ancient quarries lay. These are in fact very close to the village of Vezirhan, in the province of Bilecik, and in a region known as Bithynia in Roman Times. This stone was called breccia corallina by the Roman stonemasons, and is now on the market as ‘Rosalia’. It is a true calcareous breccia, poorly sorted and with angular or sub-rounded clasts of centimetric to metric size, embedded in a coral-coloured . L. Lazzarini