Pedreiras may refer to the following places Pedreiras, Maranhão, in Brazil Pedreiras (Porto de Mós), a parish in the municipality of Porto de Mós, in Portugal See also Pedreira (disambiguation)

Parks old quarries that they were transformed into parks.

Pedreiras, Maranhão is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil.

Quarries once made the nature, and sometimes we took this and we transformed.

Ondosto A city in the Forostar, associated by Christopher Tolkien with the stone quarries of the region .

Possui em suas margens enormes pedreiras com até 15 metros de altura.

So the bones were moved from the cemeteries into the quarries, making them into the catacombs.

In addition to these roles, Miami is also an industrial center, especially for stone quarrying and warehousing.

They were consistently dug as limestone quarries and by the 18th century, the caving in of some of these quarries posed safety threats, so the government ordered reinforcing of the existing quarries and dug new observation tunnels in order to monitor and map the whole place.

Alcains owes much of its fame to the granite quarries located here, whose stone is considered to be among the best in Portugal.

The Gallura granite district is composed of 260 companies that work in 60 quarries, where 75 of the Italian granite is extracted.

These were transported from quarries at Balatai and they had to be lifted up once they arrived at the site, presumably by a ramp.

A salient feature in the history of the municipality is the presence of Pomeranian immigrants, who came from a region that is now part of Germany and Poland.

Gold is obtained from either gold mines, trade or collecting relics in a monastery, and stone is collected from stone mines.

The technique of construction is well understood, scholars know perfectly what tools were used, the marks of those tools in the quarries are still visible, and there are many tools preserved in museums.

The development of the Gunpowder factory () in Barcarena, was therefore, important in the expansion of the Portuguese dominions of the Orient, in addition to the aggregate extraction and calcium oxide furnaces in Paço de Arcos.

Moreover, the military reconquered territory in Nubia that was rich in quarries and gold mines, while laborers built a defensive structure in the Eastern Delta, called the Walls of the Ruler , to defend against foreign attack.

The emperor had material brought from all over the empire such as Hellenistic columns from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, large stones from quarries in porphyry from Egypt, green marble from Thessaly, black stone from the Bosporus region, and yellow stone from Syria.

History Antiquity The area occupied by Tirana has been populated since the Paleolithic era, dating back 10,000 to 30,000 years ago, as suggested by evidence from tools excavated near Mount Dajt's quarry and in Pellumba Cave.

The Rock of Calvary appears cracked through a window on the altar wall, with the crack traditionally claimed to be caused by the earthquake that occurred when Jesus died on the cross, while some scholars claim it to be the result of quarrying against a natural flaw in the rock.

Vidal de Caldas Nogueira, in articles composed in 1957, suggest that The Romans would collect the rock for their constructions, monuments and many of the inscriptions in Olissipo (Lisbon) from the quarries in Lisbon and Sintra, is not difficult to believe that this antique burgh were today exists Parede, they became active in this inscription industry from marble and granite.