It is a town to be discovered slowly, wandering the silence of its streets amidst the severe beauty of palazzi whose stones disclose a timeless history.
It is shrouded in a unique atmosphere, an indefinable charm, due possibly to the marble which is everywhere.
The visitor is pervaded by an infinite candour at the sight of its beauties, foremost among them the Duomo (eleventh-fourteenth century) with its typical Pisan facade and Gothic loggia with rose-window in white and dark inlaid marble.
The three-naved interior houses works of indubitable artistic value: the fifteenth-century marble statues of the Cassanelle, a fourteenth-century wooden crucifix, the sixteenth-century pulpit and the Bergamini chair-backs.
In Piazza del Duomo we can admire the imposing 33-metre belltower built in the thirteenth century and the Fontana del Gigante, an incomplete sixteenth-century work by Baccio Bandinelli.
Also very fine is the house where Michelangelo stayed on various occasions, who like many artists and sculptors came to Carrara to choose the finest marbles for his works.
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I forgot Lilliputtana, the most exciting sea-spot of all Adriatic sea!!!
great tomato-juice there!
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loop 04.04.2002 23:08
Italy oh Italy once I've been there, but not Carrara, in Princetown, and also in Salgemma e Salvemini e Salvetti. Beautiful spots.
petersmyth1 19.05.2001 19:24
I sorry for the rating but this op. tells me nothing about the town other than the structure of a few buildings in fact I only know it's in Italy because of the section heading. Is it on the beach, what part of Italy is it in, does it have many shops, what sort entertainment does it provide these are all the sorts of question a reader wants an opinion about a town to tell him. I'm sure you can do better if you really want to. All the best. .....Peter
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