Location: Carrara
Top Things to do in Carrara
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Carrara [karˈraːra] (Emilian: Carara) 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 River, some 100 kilometres (62 mi) west-northwest of Florence.
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1. Marble Caves of Carrara
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 393 reviews
Famous for their white marble, these caves in the Apua Mountains serve as studios of stone sculpting and bronze art, where famous artists and sculptors from all over the world come to work.
Reviewed By Teddy C - Switzerland
The first time you see the Mountains above Carrara, it takes your breath away. The white "wounds" where the marble has been cut away, are bigger than life. The courage of the workers, driving their big trucks up nearly vertical slopes, the landslides of marble chips thrown down the mountain. It's all too exciting. To think that Michelangelo took his marble from these quarries with ox-drawn carts, and even had to have a bridge built over a gorge, in order to get his marble down to sea level, just amazes everybody. Take your camera.
2. Cantine Lunae
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4.5 based on 167 reviews
Reviewed By FredrikHenry - Sweden
Very nice rustic and elegant cantine. Professional staff speaking several languages and very helpful. Bosoni produces the best vermentino in Italy and sells it to a good price too. If you buy boxes, 6 or 12 bottles, you get a big discount. You can also fill your own bottle at a price of approx. €2 per litre. Also the red wines are perfect, try Nicolo V Riserva.
3. Orto Botanico delle Alpi Apuane - Pietro Pellegrini
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5 based on 196 reviews
The Botanical Garden was established in 1966 to conserve and enhance the flora of the Apuan Alps. It belongs to Massa Municipality and it’s actually managed with “Aquilegia” Natura e Paesaggio Apuano (non-profit organization) and University of Pisa. It’s located in the heart of the Regional Parlk of the Apuan Alps, in a panoramic place between the Mountains and the sea, and inside it’s possible to admire many endemic species like “Apuan Alps’ little Widow” (Globularia incanescens Viv.), symbol of the Botanical Garden. The Botanical Garden is open every days from mid-May to mid-Septemper. Opening hours: 9.00 – 13.00 and 15.00-19.00. In other periods: opening for the spring’s festivities and on request for organized groups and aschools
Reviewed By melrock - Tuscany, Italy
Friendly guides, breath-taking views, best to go in June when all of the flowers are in bloom. All the same, we could only go in September and enjoyed it all the same. Open summer only. Requires medium-level agility to complete path.
4. Passeggiata Sandro Pertini
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4 based on 38 reviews
Reviewed By Andrea C
The walk along the docks is supposedly the nicest thing to do in Marina di Carrara. Unfortunately this is actually the case only because there are no alternatives.
While you may enjoy seeing the see on one side during the walk, you will have the port with people working, or at least massive standing cranes, on the other side. Not quite the panoramic view you would like to see.
5. Duomo di Carrara
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4.5 based on 172 reviews
6. Castello Malaspina
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4 based on 111 reviews
Reviewed By francesco a - Naples, Italy
Il Castello Malaspina di Carrara, con l’attiguo rinascimentale Palazzo del Principe dei Cybo, rappresentano dal medioevo il potere signorile a Carrara.
Bella la struttura della rocca con il Torrione merlato del XII secolo a cui si accede da due grandi portali esterni.
Belli i fue cortili interni, con gli stemmi marmorei delle antiche casate con affreschi del ‘400 con le eleganti logge e portali bugnati.
Un elegante transetto cinquecentesco a colonne e bifore unisce il castello al rinascimentale Palazzo del Principe dei Cybo, un palazzo fortificato con vari ambienti e dove, al piano nobile, si trovano gli appartamenti privati del Principe.
Ambienti ricchi di arredi ed affreschi.
Ho assistito all'interno del bellissimo complesso alla rappresentazione del presepe vivente multimediale, affascinante ed interessante, coinvolgente.
7. BarLume
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3.5 based on 25 reviews
Reviewed By Pantouflefuretto
Il locale piccolo con una vasta scelta di vini e birre...molto originale anche dalla gente che lo frequenta...
Sicuramente viene apprezzato il fine settimana alla sera dopo cena,frequentato da tanta gente del posto.
Prezzi come altri bar alla mano.
8. Cava di Marmo al Coperto di Fantiscritti Carrara
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4.5 based on 130 reviews
Reviewed By pebitpeb - Carrara
This is a short tour that takes you inside the white marbled mountain where you are surrounded by the prestine white marbles of Carrara, Italy, which is also called the world capital of white marbles. We have taken various friends and family to enjoy this tour and everyone has been pleased with their visit. The tour is short and informative. Lasts about 30-40 minutes and is available in multi languages.
9. Colonnata
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 255 reviews
Reviewed By Paul h - Adelaide, Australia
A quiet village with a specialty of producing lardo. Here is your opportunity to try it in local dishes, by the shaved slice or take away a piece for later. Lardo is a very Italian slice of pork fat flavoured with spices and herbs, not for everyone but worth the try
10. Piazza Aranci
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4.5 based on 40 reviews
Reviewed By francesco a - Naples, Italy
Baricentro della città è uno dei luoghi principali.
Ampliata dalla sorella di Napoleone demolendo la Cattedrale di San Pietro.
Delimitata da alberi d'arancio al centro una fontana con l'obelisco alla base furono poi aggiunti quattro leoni in marmo.
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