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
Roman Catholic Diocese of Massa Carrara-Pontremoli a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Modena. "Erected: 18 February 1822"<br> "Latin Name: Massensis"<br> "Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Pisa" "Name Changed: 20 July 1939"<br> "Latin Name: Apuaniensis"<br> "Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Pisa" "Name Changed: 30 September 1986"<br> "Latin Name: Massensis" "United: 23 February 1988 with the Diocese of Pontremoli"<br> "Latin Name: Massensis-Apuanus"<br> Metropolitan: Archdiocese of Pisa Roman Catholic Diocese of Massa Carrara-Pontremoli The Italian Catholic Diocese of Massa Carrara-Pontremoli () is in Tuscany. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Pisa. The historical Diocese of Massa Carrara had its name changed in 1939 to Diocese of Apuania; and again in 1986