Tourist attractions Massa

This wild landscape and the enormous amount of work carried out by the quarrymen over the years make these quarries a particularly impressive spectacle. The Colonnata quarries 8,5 km East of these ones, are surrounded by greenery.

The Marble Museum focuses on the use of marble from Antiquity to the modern day. It is broken down into five sections: the first uses archaeological pieces to illustrate the use of marble in the region during Roman times. The second room, the Marble ..

It is on a height to the north-east of the city and was built in 1322 by Castruccio Castracani , the condottiere of Lucca. It has deep moats and massive curtain walls and is a curious example of military architecture. From the keep there is a magnif..

Entirely made of marble, this modernised Cathdral accommodates a baptismal font, A Madonna of the Pinturicchio, the tombs of the Malaspina and a 16C crib.

This modern church is decorated with figurative mural paintings completed in 1978 by Dino Cellini .

Concealed among semi-derelict medieval fortifications dominating the city, this Renaissance castle (15C-16C) belonged to the Malaspina , a powerful family which ruled the city until the 18C, who built as their residence the Palazzo Cybo Malaspina ,..

Carrara’s Romanesque-Gothic cathedral has a Pisan-style façade ornamented with an intricately worked and beautiful marble rose window, and an elegant 13C bell tower. The interior boasts a number of interesting 14C statues.

Standing in front of Pietrasanta’s town hall is a Botero bronze: a nude warrior armed in the Classical style, but sculpted in the artist’s characteristic rounded manner. The square also has a work by Pietro Cascella.

Two frescoes (on opposite sides of the nave) by the Colombian artist, Fernando Botero, depict the Gateway to Paradise and the Gateway to Hell . The influence of the Renaissance masters is apparent, but numerous details such as Mother Teresa, Hitle..

The main historic buildings of the town are located in this large rectangular square. The cathedral, Duomo di San Martino , has a white marble façade, in the centre of which is a huge rose window surmounted by the coats of arms of the Medici and the..

Located in the Palazzo Moroni, this museum provides an insight into life in Upper Versilia from prehistoric times to the 18C. The exhibits focus on the period when the area was hotly disputed, coming under the successive control of Genoa, Lucca, Pisa..

The cathedral of Sarzana has a magnificent retable in finely sculpted marble from 1432 by Riccomani. In the chapel to the left of the chancel there is an arresting crucifix , a masterpiece of Romanesque painting, Guglielmo of Lucca in 1138. Finall..

Named such due to the natural air holes which create a constant flow of air, the temperature remains at an invariable 10, 7° C in this cave which is why the residents of the neighbouring village local began using this "ice-box". The cave ha..