Carrara , the city has academies of sculpture and fine arts and a museum of statuary and antiquities, and a yearly marble technology fair. The local marble is exported around the world, and marble from elsewhere is also fashioned and sculpted commercially here. The word "Carrara" likely comes from the pre-Roman (Celtic or Ligurian) element "kar" (stone), through Latin "carrariae" meaning 'quarries'. Carrara is twinned with: Carrara Carrara () is a city 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
Loggiato of the Uffizi was such an ambitious plan to display a statues of 28 famous Italians active in Tuscany was put into effect. The project was restarted in 1834-1835 as an initiative of the editor and philantropist Vincenzo Batelli, who wished to celebrated the Italian genius. Initially, he wished to fund his project with a public subscription and engage young local artists, early in their careers. Public funding, however, fell far short of what was needed. In 1842, the Grand-Ducal government selected a "Florentine Deputation to complete the decoration of the Logge degli Uffizi and honor Illustrious Tuscans". The deputation selected the subjects