Description
Botticino is a town in Northern Italy near Lake Garda that gave its name to Marmo Botticino Classico, one of the finest of Italian marbles. The colour has been produced using the best grade ‘Turkey umber’ of natural umber from the Troodos mountains of Cyprus. The name comes from terra d’ombra, or earth of Umbria, the Italian name of the pigment, Umbria being the mountainous region in central Italy where the pigment was originally extracted. The word also may be related to the Latin word Umbra and the old French word ombre, meaning shade or shadow.