Massa Carrara Area
Information and guides for tourism and holidays
Green and blooming valleys in spring, snow-white mountains in winter, hills with vineyards on the coast, this is the wonderful district around Massa Carrara.
The region called Lunigiana lies between Liguria and Emilia Romagna, a well-known, charming area in the middle of a flourishing nature, with olive trees, chestnut trees and pines along the valleys, overlooking the Apennines and the mountains called "Alpi apuane".
Fascinating old villages like Tresana, Fivizzano, Pontremoli and Mulazzo, with their castles and Romanic churches, alternate with natural parks along the territory: the Regional park of Alpi Apuane is an ideal place for every fan of trekking, with many paths for walkers, horse riders and bikers too. Other important national parks in this area are the National Park of Tosco-Emilia Apennine and the Padula Park, near the town of Carrara.
The city of Massa Carrara is world famous because of its precious marbles, quarried by the mountains Alpi Apuane, as well as by Fivizzano, Montignoso and Colonnata. One of the best known Italian culinary specialities is the famous "Lardo di Colonnata" (i.e. bacon fat), which you can taste here, together with other local specialties like acacia and chestnut honey from Lunigiana and precious DOC wines from Colli Apuani and Luni.
The main towns
Carrara
Carrara is at the foot of the Apuan Alps and is a city famous all over the world for the extraction and manufacture of its very precious marble, with which some of the most important Italian architectural and sculpture monuments are made. The town's old centre houses the Romanesque-Gothic Dome and the Rocca Malaspina.
Massa
The city of Massa, that nowadays has almost 70000 inhabitants, is extended over a small medieval centre next to the rock, surrounded by the urban development of the 16th century, towards the actual Marina.
Pontremoli
The town of Pontremoli, the "City of the Books", is in the province of Massa Carrara at 136 m. of altitude and it has a population of about 8,000 inhabitants. Inside, it is possible to visit the castle of Pignaro, the XVIII-century Palazzo Pavesi and the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta.
Other towns
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