CARRARA  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• TUSCANY
• TUSCANY (Toscana)

Tuscany, See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• MASSA

Massa e Carrara, 390 ft. above See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-level, 3 M. by See also:

• RAIL

rail N.N.E. of Avenza, which is 16m . E.S.E. of See also:

• SPEZIA

Spezia . Pop . (1881) 26, 325; (1905) town, 38,100; See also:

• COMMUNE (Med. Lat. communia, Lat. communis, common)
• COMMUNE, MEDIEVAL

commune, 48,493 . The See also:

• CATHEDRAL

cathedral (1272—1385) is a See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• GOTHIC

Gothic See also:

• BUILDING

building dating from the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of See also:

• PISAN, CHRISTINE DE (1364-c. 1430)

Pisan supremacy; the other churches, and indeed all the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal buildings of the town, are constructed of the See also:

• LOCAL

local See also:

• MARBLE (from Lat. marmor, Gr. pApµapos, shining stone)

marble, to which the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place owes its importance . The Accademia di Belle Arti contains several See also:

• ROMAN

Roman antiquities found in the quarries, and some See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• WORKS

works by local sculptors . A large See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre was inaugurated in 1892 . Some of the quarries were worked in Roman times (see See also:

• LUNA (mod. Luni)
• LUNA, ALVARO DE (d. 1453)

LUNA), but were abandoned after the downfall of the western See also:

• EMPIRE

empire, until the growth of Pisan See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture and See also:

• SCULPTURE
• SCULPTURE (Lat. sculptura, from sculpere, to carve, cognate with Gr. yXb4ew)

sculpture in the 12th and 13th centuries created a demand for it . The quarries now End end over almost the whole of the Apuan See also:

• ALPS

Alps, and some boo of them are being worked, of See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white . 345, with 4400 workmen, are at Carrara itself, and 50 (700 men) at Massa . The amount exported in 1899 was 18o,000 tons . The quarries are served by a See also:

• SEPARATE

separate railway, with several See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch lines .