The province of " Massa e Carrara " was born in 1859 from the separation of the Lunigiana and the Garfagnana from the Ducato of Modena.

In origin it was composed of three “ Circondari ”: I ° “ Circondario of Massa and Carrara ” ( compound from 7 Districts articulated in 14 Municipalities ), II ° “ Circondario ” of Castelnuovo Garfagnana ( compound from 4 Districts articulated in 17 Municipalities ), III ° “ Circondario ” of Pontremoli ( compound from 3 Districts articulated in 6 Municipalities ).

In the 1946 with decree Liutenant one ( Umberto II of Savoia ) the new Municipality of Apuania was melted and the province ( for error and / or historical ignorance ) resumptions the denomination does not date from 1859 when it was " Massa and Carrara " but Massa ( name with which it came designated to the city of Massa or Massa of Carrara from 1700 until Kingdom of Italy ( 1860 ), denomination that, in order to distinguish it from the other homonymous cities, the chief town continued till the institution of the unified Municipality of Apuania ) and with same the decree liutenant were placed to Massa.

A block of marble was provided, from a quarry in Carrara, a town in the Apuan Alps in northern Tuscany.

Also vain was the expeditions of Felice Orsini in Carrara of 1853 – 54.

Jacopo da Carrara was elected lord of Padua in 1318.

The sculpture, in Carrara marble, was made for the cardinal's funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the right as one enters the basilica, in the 18th century.

It has a prestressed concrete frame covered with glass and Carrara marble from Italy and was built by the French civil engineering company Bouygues.

The church is dedicated to the Virgin, and built in the form of a cross, consisting of a nave and four aisles — The old grand altar dated to 1628 and was built from Carrara marble wrecked on the coast, during its transit from Genoa to Antwerp.

Marble supplied for the Washington monument was so like its Italian counterpart, “ Carrara ,” that it was placed aside until a confirmation of its origin could be made.

Today's Greyfriars Church overlooks the location of a statue of Burns, which was designed by Amelia Paton Hill, sculpted in Carrara, Italy in 1882, and was unveiled by future Prime Minister, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery on 6 April 1882.

The supplied block of Carrara marble was not big enough to execute Bandinelli's wax model.

This Madonna was executed by the Italian artist Antonio Gamberelli, nicknamed Antonio Rossellino, in Carrara marble ( 15th century ).

The Roman marble industry was centered at Carrara.

Other noteworthy monuments in the square are the Fountain by Giovanni Carrara, an architect from Bergamo ( 1542 ); the Columns bearing the Venetian Lion and the Statue of Justice ( 1614 ), the statues of Hercules and Cacus and the Statue of Peace ( 1819 ) which was donated to Udine by Emperor Francis I to commemorate the peace Treaty of Campoformido.

This pulpit, made of Carrara marble, was sculpted between the end of 1265 and November 1268 with the extensive participation of his son Giovanni Pisano and his assistants Arnolfo di Cambio, Lapo di Ricevuto and several other artists.

The IFA-IAF was founded during an international anarchist conference in Carrara in 1968 by the three existing European federations of France, Italy and Spain as well as the Bulgarian Federation in French exile.

The ship was an American merchant freighter carrying cargo that included mostly marble from Carrara as well as a statue of John C. Calhoun sculpted by Hiram Powers.

The statue was begun by Jean-Baptiste Roman ( Paris, 1792-1835 ) using white Carrara marble.

In response to the NRL move, the AFL scheduled three AFL ' home games ' for the North Melbourne Football Club and a NAB Cup match for Carrara in 2007, and the Queensland State League began hosting Grand Finals there.

In 1968 in Carrara, Italy the International of Anarchist Federations was founded during an international anarchist conference held there in 1968 by the three existing European federations of France, the Italian and the Iberian Anarchist Federation as well as the Bulgarian federation in French exile.

On 10 December 2011 the Foo Fighters performed at Carrara and set the all time attendance record for any event ever held at Carrara Stadium, 37, 000 people attended the concert.

From the information that can be extracted from the large Cybo-Malaspina Archive, and from rescripts and dispatches of the Crown of the two Duchess Maria Teresa and Maria Beatrice d ' Este ( apart from several other sources ) can be reconstructed the policy held by the Duchy of Massa and Carrara in the period roughly between 1450 and 1800.

The first was the use of thin slabs of Carrara marble for the exterior, which have not held their form and have had to be replaced.

Quoting Don J. Bonilla Cruz Mendez, who after attending a convention in Torreon Mexican Baseball, sharing seat on the bus back to our Agüitas, talking about the origins of the King in the state told me: " It was in the " Parque Obrero " where first professional team played in the state, in 1943, Mexico held an exhibition game against a local selection, which was attended among others Antonio " Tweety " Aguilar, " Chilango " Quintana, Salvador Carrillo and Bernardo Carrara "; I well remember his face, with that passion when speaking of baseball, his conversation interesting and flowing, feeling the breeze which refers to the desire of those years with his anecdotes beisboleras enriqueciendome added, " By this time the king of sports was consolidated in the state, had facilities and fields for practice, recognized the state as an entity 100 % baseball, the fields were heaped prairie hundreds of fans, people know most of the players prairie.

The 1991 FIFA U-17 World Championship was held in the cities of Florence, Montecatini Terme, Viareggio, Massa, Carrara, and Livorno in Italy between 16 August and 31 August 1991.

Marble Arch is a white Carrara marble ( with some marble pieces extracted near Seravezza ) monument that now stands on a large traffic island at the junction of Oxford Street, Park Lane, and Edgware Road, almost directly opposite Speakers ' Corner in Hyde Park in London, England.

Locations the choir has visited include Rome, Carrara, Pisa, Venice, Vicenza, Nördlingen, Reykjavik, Copenhagen, Berlin, Leipzig, Hagen, Cologne, Voorburg, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Florence, York, Croissy, Munich, & Vienna.

`` I am carving a Pieta from white Carrara marble.

This masterwork, created out of a marble block from the quarries at Carrara, one that had already been worked on by an earlier hand, definitively established his prominence as a sculptor of extraordinary technical skill and strength of symbolic imagination.

Road from Carrara, Nevada towards the marble quarry in the background.

A monument from the people of Carrara, Italy to given to the city of Cape Town to " celebrate the first ten years of the African Renaissance ( 1994-2004 ).

This cemetery is the only place in the world containing a complete collection of replica Michelangelo sculptures, which were made from castings taken from the originals and using marble from the same quarries in Carrara, Italy as used by Michelangelo.

The traditional home of the marble industry is the area around Carrara in Italy, from where a bright and fine, whitish marble is extracted in vast quantities.

The exterior walls are faced in alternate vertical and horizontal bands of polychrome marble from Carrara ( white ), Prato ( green ), Siena ( red ), Lavenza and a few other places.

Francesco Ferdinando Geminiano von Habsburg-Lothringen, known as Francis V of Modena () ( 1 June 1819 – 20 November 1875 ), Archduke of Austria-Este, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, was Duke of Modena, Reggio, and Mirandola, Duke of Guastalla ( from 1847 ), Duke of Massa and Prince of Carrara from 1846 to 1859.

* Landsat 7 photograph of Carrara marble quarries in August 2001

On August 15, 2001, Carrara combined with fellow Venezuelan pitchers Omar Daal, Kelvim Escobar, and Freddy García to win their respective starts: Carrara, of the Dodgers, facing Montreal, 13 – 1 ; Daal, in a Phillies victory over the Brewers, 8 – 6 ; Escobar, of the Blue Jays, over Oakland, 5 – 2, and García, of Seattle, against the Red Sox, 6 – 2.

On August 26, 2006, Carrara was designated for assignment by the Dodgers.

On August 15, 2001, Daal combined with fellow Venezuelan pitchers Giovanni Carrara, Kelvim Escobar and Freddy García for wins in their respective starts:

She also began road construction, notably the " route Friedland " to link Massa and Carrara, with work beginning on 15 August 1807 but becoming delayed and only completed in 1820.