Carrara
Carrara is a town and comune in Tuscany, in central Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there.
Carrara is a town and comune in Tuscany, in central Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some 100 kilometres (62 mi) west-northwest of Florence. Its motto is Latin: "Fortitudo mea in rota", a reference firstly to the marble shipping industry from Roman times onwards.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Palazzo Cybo Malaspina
It is a complex of buildings consisting of an early medieval castle to which a stately palace was added in the Renaissance period.
- 02Antica Città di Luni
- 03Piazza del Duomo
- 04Piazza Alberica
- 05Piazza Antonio Gramsci
- 06Piazza Garibaldi
A singular triangular-shaped space, next to the Animosi theatre.
From Wikivoyage: Carrara, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
CarraraMarmotec: International fair of marble and technologies for its processing. Carrara Festival Marble Weeks: Marble exhibits and installations are arranged throughout the city edit Solemnity of San Ceccardo: July 16th. Patron of the city. Solemnity of Our Lady of the People: Second Sunday of May and third Sunday of November. Patroness of the historic centre.
From Wikivoyage: Carrara, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Carrara
- Airports
- Pisa (PSA), 50 km · Florence, Peretola (FLR), 93 km · Genoa Cristoforo Colombo (GOA), 107 km
- Pisa (PI) → Carrara47 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · €6–9
- Firenze (FI) → Carrara99 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · €13–18
- Genova (GE) → Carrara100 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · €12–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Carrara
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Carrara. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe town is also connected to Cinque Terre and Portovenere by ferry.
From Wikivoyage: Lerici, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2019-08.
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If you know how people move in Carrara – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.