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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 401 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of See also:Tuscany, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Massa e Carrara, 390 ft. above See also:sea-level, 3 M. by See also:rail N.N.E. of Avenza, which is 16m. E.S.E. of See also:Spezia. Pop. (1881) 26, 325; (1905) town, 38,100; See also:commune, 48,493. The See also:cathedral (1272—1385) is a See also:fine See also:Gothic See also:building dating from the See also:period of See also:Pisan supremacy; the other churches, and indeed all the See also:principal buildings of the town, are constructed of the See also:local See also:marble, to which the See also:place owes its importance. The Accademia di Belle Arti contains several See also:Roman antiquities found in the quarries, and some See also:modern See also:works by local sculptors. A large See also:theatre was inaugurated in 1892. Some of the quarries were worked in Roman times (see See also:LUNA), but were abandoned after the downfall of the western See also:empire, until the growth of Pisan See also:architecture and See also:sculpture in the 12th and 13th centuries created a demand for it. The quarries now End end over almost the whole of the Apuan See also:Alps, and some boo of them are being worked, of See also:white. 345, with 4400 workmen, are at Carrara itself, and 50 (700 men) at Massa. The amount exported in 1899 was 18o,000 tons. The quarries are served by a See also:separate railway, with several See also:branch lines.

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