Nowadays the travertine is one of the most frequently used stones in modern architecture thanks to the quarries of Tivoli that use the latest techiniques to produce mostly thin slabs to be used as façade material, wall cladding, and flooring. Quarried blocks with uncut faces are used in garden and aquarium decoration.
ColosseoThe Tivoli's travertine is imported into the UK and USA extensively and used as a flooring material. In London it has been used in the internal facing at Piccadilly Underground Station, Senate House, the new British Library and Broadgate Circle.
Notable and recently buildings using travertine extensively include the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris and the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California. All of this travertine was mined and imported from Tivoli. In the United States there is a million tonnes demand which is mostly met by imports: most of these imports come from Tivoli.
