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
Grand Ducal Crown of Tuscany is only known from drawings and paintings, since it was lost during the Napoleonic Occupation. A copy of the crown was placed in the coffin of each of the Grand Dukes at their funerals. One of these, which belonged to Gian Gastone de' Medici (r. 1723-1737) was recovered during a survey of the corpse and is now conserved in Florence. Grand Ducal Crown of Tuscany The Grand Ducal Crown of Tuscany (Italian: "corona del Granducato di Toscana") was a ducal crown created by the Medicean Grand Dukes of Tuscany. Cosimo I de' Medici, duke of Florence, sought to achieve a