Duchy of Massa and Carrara Genoa. Alberico I brought large urban restructurations in the cities of Carrara and Massa, mainly for prestige reasons. Both cities were equipped with new city walls - with representative functions, rather than military, since the policy of the territory was not expansionist - and new ducal palaces. In Carrara was established the Office of Marble (1564), to regulate the marble mining industry. The city of Massa, in particular, saw much of its plan redesigned (new roads, plazas, intersections, pavings) in order to make it worthy of an Italian country's capital. The War of Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was the beginning of
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