Carrara, the world-wide capital city of marble fabrication and trade, takes its name (from the Ligurian root-word kar = stone) just from the material which made it famous the world over.
The historical city centre preserves some valuable monuments. The Cathedral (XI-XIV centuries) with a Romanesque-Gothic fade and a precious marble rosette; inside: a wooden Crucifix (XIV century); two finely-made statues, the "Cassanelle", the Virgin and the Annunciation ...
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Carrara, the world-wide capital city of marble fabrication and trade, takes its name (from the Ligurian root-word kar = stone) just from the material which made it famous the world over.
The historical city centre preserves some valuable monuments. The Cathedral (XI-XIV centuries) with a Romanesque-Gothic faade and a precious marble rosette; inside: a wooden Crucifix (XIV century); two finely-made statues, the "Cassanelle", the Virgin and ...
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Advantages: Conveniently good accommodation facilities (hotels, camping sites, bed and breakfast) Disadvantages:
...cold northern winds, Marina di Carrara is a modern, well-equipped seaside resort, with a large beach of fine and soft sand, set among the blue sea and green pine woods.
Excellently located along the Tyrrhenian coast, it is very well served by road (Trunk Road no. 1, "Via Aurelia"), motorway (A 12: Genoa-Livorno; A 15: Parma-mare; A 11: Florence-mare) and railway (lines Genoa-Pisa-Rome and Milan-Fornovo-Livorno) connection networks, so its beach ...
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The first approach to the marble slopes takes you generally to Colonnata (532 metres high), an ancient hamlet said to have been founded to accomodate the slave who excavated the marble in Roman times. The quarries of Colonnata comprise the most important of the Apuan slopes and offer a supeerb view of the majestic marble pieces on the slopes of the Mountains Serrone Maggiore an Spallone. At the summit of the same mountain you find the slope of Gioia: ...
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Not far from Carrara are the Apuan Alps.
Since the ancient Romans times, people have been digging out marble from these mountains.
If you are in Carrara, go to the "Museo del Marmo", to learn more about marble.
To extract marble, requires a lot of science, since, according to the way it is cut out of the mountain, the quality can be affected positively or negatively.
Once cut, the rock is cleaned, and then transported, with an ancient ...
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...eye of the beholder. Massa, Carrara and Montignoso on one side and Lunigiana on the other can boast a rather unique geological location connected by world-famus arts town in Tuscany. A 10-minute drive to Versilia, a half an hour drive to Le Cinque Terre, a little longer to Pisa and Lucca and an hour's drive to Florence. Finally, further opportunities to enjoy the territory are offered by the Conference Centre in Marina di Massa and the Marble and ...
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Advantages: nice city Disadvantages: I do not know
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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 ...
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Advantages: The best marble of the world Disadvantages:
...foot of the Apuan Alps, Carrara is word-wide famous for its white marble quarries which surround the town.
To admire this precious material walk around the town and you will see how it has been used to decorate the squares, the buildings, and the cornices of facades.
There isn't a place where you cannot but appreciate man's ability to work this stone. Of the main squares, Piazza Alberica is the most noteworthy: flanked on one side by Palazzo ...
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