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Crystalline limestones - marbles, are historically one of the most important raw materials exploited in the area of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands (Vysocina region). Their use is connected with the first construction of masonry buildings since the Middle Ages. Local marbles were first used as raw material for lime burning, then as building stone, decorative stones or as individual elements in building constructions. The most famous locations where these marbles were used include the Cistercian monastery in -dar n...