| frazioni = Codena, Bedizzano, Bergiola, Colonnata, Miseglia, Torano, Sorgnano, Avenza, Marina di Carrara, Castelpoggio, Fontia, Gragnana, Noceto | telephone = 0585| postalcode = 54033| gentilic = Carraresi| saint = San Ceccardo| day = June 16 | mayor = Andrea Angelo Zubbani }}Carrara is a city in the province of Massa-Carrara (Tuscany, Italy), famous for the white or blue-gray marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some 100 km west-northwest of Florence. Famously referenced to in James Russell Lowell in The First SnowFall. 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). 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.Carrara

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