Carrara
Carrara is a city of 60,000 people in Tuscany that is famous for its marble. The extraction of marble in Carrara has been documented since ancient times.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stadio dei Marmi and Museo civico del marmo di Carrara.
Stadio dei Marmi
Stadium
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Stadio dei Marmi is a multi-use stadium in Carrara, Tuscany, Italy. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Carrarese. The stadium holds around 3,520.
Museo civico del marmo di Carrara
Museum
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Museo civico del marmo di Carrara is a museum.
Carrara San Martino railway station
Railway station
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Carrara San Martino railway station, previously named Carrara Città, was a railway station common to two lines, now suppressed, located near the center of Carrara.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marina di Carrara and Luni.
Marina di Carrara
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Carrara is a town and comune in Tuscany, in northern Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there.
Luni
Village
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Luni is a comune in the province of La Spezia, in the easternmost end of the Liguria region of northern Italy. It was founded by the Romans as Luna. It gives its name to Lunigiana, a region spanning eastern Liguria and northern Tuscany.
Carrara
- Type: Locality with 62,300 residents
- Also known as: “045003”
- Location: Massa-Carrara, Tuscany, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.0629° or 44° 3′ 47″ northLongitude
10.0607° or 10° 3′ 39″ eastPopulation
62,300Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)Open location code
8FPG3376+57GeoNames ID
6542087
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Carrara” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كرارا”
- Armenian: “Կարրարա”
- Belarusian: “Горад Карара”
- Bulgarian: “Карара”
- Chinese: “卡拉拉”
- Esperanto: “Kararo”
- French: “Carrare”
- Greek: “Καρράρα”
- Hebrew: “קרארה”
- Italian: “Carrara”
- Italian: “Comune di Carrara”
- Japanese: “カッラーラ”
- Kazakh: “Каррара”
- Latin: “Carraria”
- Lithuanian: “Karara”
- Lombard: “Carara”
- Persian: “کارارا”
- Piemontese: “Carara”
- Russian: “Каррара”
- Serbian: “Карара”
- Tibetan: “ཀ་རཱ་ར།”
- Ukrainian: “Каррара”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Stadio dei Marmi di Carrara and Carrara San Martino railway station.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Carrara”. Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 4.0.