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The Lasa marble, which is extracted from the Nördersberg near Laas (Lasa) in South Tyrol (Alto Adige) in the very north of Italy, is an exceptionally hard, durable, resistant material which wears well in adverse weather conditions. It began earning a prestigious reputation for itself around the middle of the XIX century and has been known as Tyrolean Marble or Vinschgau Valley Marble over the years. It owes much of its fame to having been presented by two merchants of the Imperial Geological Office at the Vienna World Exhibition in the year 1873. It soon became the favourite material of various well-known XIX century architects and sculptors. The Lasa marble is still now a salient feature of certain architectural styles, especially from the Neoclassical period, in big cities such as Vienna, Munich and Berlin. Among the most famous works that have employed the Lasa marble we would like to mention the monument to General Moltke in Berlin, the majestic Athena-Pallas fountain opposite the parliament building in Vienna, the monument to Queen Victoria in front of Buckingham Palace in London and the Heinrich Heine monument in New York. A final mention must also go to the over 90.000 Lasa marble crosses celebrating US soldiers who died in WWII, crosses that the Americans required to be built in their military cemeteries across four continents using the finest marble available in the world.