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
Matilda of Tuscany innate leadership ability. In an illustration of the Vita Mathildis by the monk Donizo (or, in Italian, Donizone), Matilda is referred to as "Mathildis Lucens" (from Lucca). She was descended from the nobleman Sigifredo of Lucca. Matilda was the youngest of the three children of Margrave Boniface III of Tuscany, ruler of a vast territory in Northern Italy and one of the most powerful vassals of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III. Matilda's mother, Beatrice of Lorraine, was the Emperor's first cousin and closely connected to the imperial household. Renowned for her learning, Matilda was literate in Latin, as well