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Massa-Carrara

Carrara

Carrara is a city of 60,000 people in that is famous for its marble. The extraction of marble in Carrara has been documented since ancient times.
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  • Type: City with 63,100 residents
  • Description: city in Tuscany, Italy
  • Also known as: “Apuania”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Stadio dei Marmi and Carrara San Martino railway station.

Stadium
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is a multi-use in Carrara, , . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Carrarese. The stadium holds around 3,520.

Railway station
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, previously named Carrara Città, was a railway station common to two lines, now suppressed, located near the center of Carrara.

Museum
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is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Massa and Luni.

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is a town and comune in , central , the administrative centre of the province of and Carrara. It is located in the River Valley, near the Alpi Apuane, 5 km from the .

Village
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is a comune in the , in the easternmost end of the region of northern . It was founded by the Romans as Luna. It gives its name to , a region spanning eastern Liguria and northern .

Suburb
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Carrara is a town and comune in , in northern Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there.

Carrara

Latitude
44.0771° or 44° 4′ 38″ north
Longitude
10.0967° or 10° 5′ 48″ east
Population
63,100
Elevation
100 metres (328 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IT CRA
Open location code
8FPG33GW+RM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 61753614
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3180423
Wiki­data ID
Q13372
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Carrara” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كرارا”
  • Aragonese: “Carrara”
  • Armenian: “Կարարա”
  • Armenian: “Կարրարա”
  • Asturian: “Carrara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Karrara”
  • Basque: “Carrara”
  • Belarusian: “Карара”
  • Breton: “Carrara”
  • Bulgarian: “Карара”
  • Catalan: “Carrara”
  • Cebuano: “Carrara”
  • Central Bikol: “Carrara”
  • Chechen: “Каррара”
  • Chinese: “Carrara”
  • Chinese: “卡拉拉”
  • Corsican: “Carrara”
  • Czech: “Carrara”
  • Danish: “Carrara”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Carrara”
  • Dutch: “Carrara”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كرارا”
  • Esperanto: “Carrara”
  • Esperanto: “Kararo”
  • Estonian: “Carrara”
  • Finnish: “Carrara”
  • French: “Carrare”
  • Galician: “Carrara”
  • German: “Carrara”
  • Greek: “Καρράρα”
  • Hebrew: “קרארה”
  • Hindi: “करारा”
  • Hungarian: “Carrara”
  • Indonesian: “Carrara, Italia”
  • Interlingua: “Carrara”
  • Irish: “Carrara”
  • Italian: “Carrara”
  • Japanese: “カッラーラ”
  • Japanese: “カラーラ”
  • Kazakh: “Каррара”
  • Korean: “카라라”
  • Kotava: “Carrara”
  • Kurdish: “Carrara”
  • Ladin: “Carrara”
  • Latin: “Carraria”
  • Latvian: “Karrāra”
  • Lithuanian: “Karara”
  • Lombard: “Carara”
  • Luxembourgish: “Carrara”
  • Malay: “Carrara, Itali”
  • Mazanderani: “کارّارا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Carrara”
  • Neapolitan: “Carrara”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carrara”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Carrara”
  • Norwegian: “Carrara”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Carrara”
  • Ossetian: “Каррарæ”
  • Persian: “کارارا”
  • Piemontese: “Carara”
  • Polish: “Carrara”
  • Portuguese: “Carrara”
  • Romagnol: “Carara”
  • Romanian: “Carrara”
  • Russian: “Каррара”
  • Sanskrit: “कार्रारा”
  • Scots: “Carrara”
  • Serbian: “Карара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carrara”
  • Sicilian: “Carrara”
  • Silesian: “Carrara”
  • Slovak: “Carrara”
  • Slovenian: “Carrara”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کارارا”
  • Spanish: “Carrara”
  • Swahili: “Carrara”
  • Swedish: “Carrara”
  • Tagalog: “Carrara”
  • Tamil: “கராரா”
  • Tatar: “Каррара”
  • Thai: “การ์รารา”
  • Tibetan: “ཀ་རཱ་ར།”
  • Turkish: “Carrara”
  • Ukrainian: “Каррара”
  • Urdu: “کارارا”
  • Venetian: “Carara”
  • Vietnamese: “Carrara”
  • Volapük: “Carrara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Carrara”
  • Welsh: “Carrara”
  • Western Armenian: “Քարրարա”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡拉拉”
  • “Carara”
  • “Carrara”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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.