Why we love diamonds ....

Before you start to talk about diamonds, we want to make a short digression, and say that the first diamonds were discovered by humans about 4,000 years ago, and to trace their genesis must go back in time to as many as 3 billion years ..

... In fact, after a long gestation within the earth, the element carbon crystallizes in the structure of the diamond, and it becomes the great stone that we know!

The term diamond originates from two Greek words: "adamas" (invincible) and "diaphanous" (transparent), and these adjectives aptly describe the basic properties of this beautiful gem, and summarize the primary characteristics that give absolute uniqueness, namely:

• hardness: no material except another diamond is able to scratch them
• gloss: it is expressed at the highest level, it is called "adamantine"
• brilliance: it is constituted by the sum of the effects of light due to the number, size and position of the faces in which it was cut.

Think about that until the fifteenth century, diamonds were worn only by the king, just as a symbol of strength and invincibility, and then, over the centuries, the diamond has become a symbol not only of power, but especially of Love!

It was said that Cupid's arrows had a diamond, and the Greeks thought that the fire of the diamond reflected the flame of eternal love, and these myths have been preserved, in a more or less conscious to the present day, making the diamond symbol of Love..and leaving this stone the power to express what the heart feels, better than many words ...

No stone better than a diamond can express the magic, the beauty, the mystery, the fire, the light and durability of the emotions

The custom of giving a diamond engagement ring dates back to 1477, when Archduke Maximilian of Austria gave it one to Mary of Burgundy, starting a tradition destined to have millions of followers in the world ..

During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I ° rings with diamonds were nicknamed "scribbling rings", for fashion to use them to "scribble" on the windows messages amore..and is said that the same Queen Elizabeth I used this method to devote to Sir Walter Raleigh his words of love ..

So the diamond ring has over time become the symbol of promise of marriage, and then the ring of diamonds became for the anniversary, to renew the concept of "endless love" ..

The diamonds have become global symbols of affirmation and reaffirmation of a love story between two people!

Many diamonds, white or colored are become famous, and to entered in the story, and sometimes, in the legend ....

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