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Hualien International Stone Sculpture Festival in Hualien
The Hualien International Stone Sculpture Festival celebrates Hualien's marble and stone-carving industry through an international sculpture symposium where visiting artists carve on-site, alongside exhibitions at the region's stone sculpture museum park. Running since the late 1990s, it ties the county's mining heritage to public art.
Hualien County sits on the largest deposits of marble in Taiwan, an industry that has shaped the region's economy for decades through quarrying and stone processing along the island's mountainous east coast.