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Carrara

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Oct 15, 2021 04:31 PM — History

tags: Marble, mine, quarry

The quarries at Carrara in northern Tuscany produced a range of white marbles that saw limited local use until being widely exploited and exported by the Romans from the first century B.C. onward.

500 km

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/961672314

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
44.0791804, 10.1023532

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Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Carrara (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Carrara makes connections with:

Carrara part of (analytical) Ager Lunensis Survey area (unspecified date range)

Carrara receives connections from:

None

Place type:
quarry, settlement-modern

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Carrara: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/961672314> [accessed: 26 April 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/961672314 |title=Places: 961672314 (Carrara) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=April 26, 2025 7:48 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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