Comune di Carrara
Municipal coat of arms
Country	Italy
Region	Tuscany
Province	Massa-Carrara (MS)
Mayor	Andrea Angelo Zubbani
Elevation	100 m (328 ft)
Area	71 km² (27 sq mi)
Population (as of December 31, 2004)
- Total	65,296
- Density	920/km² (2,383/sq mi)
Time zone	CET, UTC+1
Coordinates	44°04.75′N, 10°06.00′E
Gentilic	Carraresi
Dialing code	0585
Postal code	54033
Frazioni	Codena, Bedizzano, Bergiola, Colonnata, Miseglia, Torano, Sorgnano, Avenza, Marina di Carrara, Castelpoggio, Fontia, Gragnana, Noceto
Patron	San Ceccardo
- Day	June 16

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Motto

Fortitudo mea in rota (My force is in the wheel)

History

The municipality of Carrara was established in 1235.

Over the centuries it was ruled by Pisa (1235), Lucca (1322), Genoa (1329), and Milan (1343). Pisa is a city in Tuscany, central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the Arno River on the Ligurian Sea. Lucca is a city in Tuscany, northern central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plain near (but not on the Ligurian Sea Genoa ( Genova, ˈdʒɛːnova in Italian; Zena in Genoese and Ligurian; Genua in Latin and archaically in English Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. After the death of Filippo Maria Visconti of Milan in 1477, Carrara was fought over by Tommaso Campogregoso, lord of Sarzana, and the Malaspina family. Filippo Maria Visconti, ( September 23, 1392 &ndash August 13, 1447) was ruler of Milan from 1412 to 1447 Sarzana is a Town and comune in the Province of La Spezia, of Liguria, Italy, 15 km east of Spezia, on the Railway to

Carrara and Massa formed the Duchy of Massa and Carrara from the 15^th to the 19^th century. The Duchy of Massa and Carrara was the duchy that controlled the towns of Massa di Carrara and Carrara; the area is now part of unified Italy, but retains The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar

In 1929, the municipalities of Carrara, Massa and Montignoso were merged in a single municipality, called Apuania. Montignoso is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Massa-Carrara in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 90 km northwest In 1945 the previous situation was restored.

Carrara is the birthplace of the International Federation of Anarchists (IFA), formed in 1968. The International of Anarchist Federations (IAF or IFA was founded during an international Anarchist conference in Carrara in 1968 by the three existing European

Main sights

• Cathedral (12th century).
• Ducal Palace (16th century), now the seat of the Fine Arts Academy.

Economy and culture

The area around Carrara, seen from an aircraft flying at 33000 feet. The town of Carrara is at the top of the picture, nearest to the marble quarries which are the white markings on the mountains

A Carraran marble quarry

Carrara marble has been used since the time of Ancient Rome; the Pantheon and Trajan's Column in Rome are constructed of it. Marble is a nonfoliated Metamorphic rock resulting from the Metamorphism of Limestone, composed mostly of Calcite (a crystalline form of A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or Minerals are extracted Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC The Pantheon ( Latin Pantheon, from Greek Πάνθειον Pantheon, meaning "Temple of all the gods" is a building in Rome Trajan's Column is a Monument in Rome raised in honour of the Roman emperor Trajan and constructed by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Many sculptures of the Renaissance, such as Michelangelo's David, were carved from Carrara marble. The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth" Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime One of them by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all David is a Masterpiece of Renaissance Sculpture sculpted by Michelangelo from 1501 to 1504 For Michelangelo at least, Carrara marble was valued above all other stone, except perhaps that of his own quarry in Pietrasanta. Pietrasanta is a town and Comune on the coast of northern Tuscany in Italy, in the Province of Lucca. The Marble Arch in London and the Duomo di Siena are also made from this stone. Marble Arch is a white Carrara Marble monument near Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, at the western end of Oxford Street in London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The Medieval Cathedral of Siena ( Italian: Duomo di Siena) dedicated from its earliest days as a Roman Catholic Marian church and

In addition to the marble quarries, the city has academies of sculpture and fine arts and a museum of statuaries and antiquities. A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development open to the public which acquires conserves researches communicates and exhibits the The local marble is exported around the world, and marble from elsewhere is also fashioned and sculpted commercially here.

An international stone and machinery exhibition, CarraraMarmotec, takes place in Carrara.

Derivation of name

The word "Carrara" likely comes from the ancient term "Kar" (stone). Ancient Romans quarried the marble, loaded it onto ships at the port of Luni and took it to Rome. Luni is a Frazione of the Comune (municipality of Ortonovo, Province of La Spezia, in the Liguria region of According to Saint Girolamo, the name Carrara derives from “car” which means "wagons" and from “iara” that means "Moon", so is the “City of the Moon on the Wagons”.

Mt Sagro and nearby quarries

Another hypothesis (Repetti) is that the term is derived from the French “careers”, which in turn is borrowed from “carrariae”, a Latin term meaning quarry. Carrara may derive from a preRoman term : “kair” (Celtic) or to one from Liguria: “kar”, that means "stone" and therefore: “car+aria” meaning “place of stones”.

Famous Carraresi

• Gianluigi Buffon
• Giorgio Chinaglia
• Pietro Tacca

Gallery

Carrara by Nikolai Ge, Taganrog Museum of Art

External links

• Official website
• Carrara project
• Marble Quarry in the Massa-Carrara region
• Landsat 7 photograph of Carrara marble quarries in August 2001
• www.giucano.it - A beautiful small town in Tuscany