Carrara Cathedral Carrara Cathedral Carrara Cathedral (Italian: "Duomo di Carrara") is a Roman Catholic church, dedicated to Saint Andrew, in the town of Carrara, located in central Italy. Most of the exterior, and much of the interior, is covered in the local Carrara marble. An older church, "Ecclesia Sancti Andree de Carraria", is mentioned as existing on this site as early as 1035, but of it, only a bas-relief remains. The first written documentation of the Carrara Cathedral dates to 1099. The church was first enlarged in 1099, when it received the status of "pieve". It is the first Medieval church to
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