Carrara marble

Connected Sites: 23

Carrara marble is a type of white or blue-grey marble of high quality, popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It is quarried in the city of Carrara located in the northernmost tip of modern-day Tuscany, Italy. (wiki)

Connected Sites

  • Rome
    Rome
    Holy See, Italy
    Inscribed: 1980
    4.57
    661
    13
    Pantheon, Trajan's Column, Column of Marcus Aurelius
  • Siena
    Siena
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1995
    4.05
    378
    10
    Duomo
  • Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.93
    80
    5
    New Cathedral: ... the floor is covered with pink marble, brought from Carrara (Italy) (wiki)
  • Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.80
    498
    14
    The cathedral, baptistry and campanile
  • Pienza
    Pienza
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.07
    192
    9
    Pozzo del Rossellino
  • Vatican City
    Inscribed: 1984
    4.30
    612
    9
    Pietà statue and other works of art in Musei Vaticani + Palazzo San Carlo
  • Stoclet House
    Inscribed: 2009
    1.84
    242
    13
    "facade with cubic lines covered with Carrara marble"
    See fr.wikipedia.org
  • Val di Noto
    Inscribed: 2002
    3.35
    207
    11
    Catania Cathedral: "The parvise is separated from the cathedral square by a balustrade in white stone, featuring five large statues of saints in Carrara marble."
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • El Escurial
    Inscribed: 1984
    3.35
    254
    13
    Royal Pantheon
  • Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.93
    226
    11
    "The American cemeteries developed around the memorial, and include a chapel and a building for the manager of the site; the burials are grouped in sectors, each occupying 4 square meters. The stelae are in Carrara marble." (AB ev)
  • Valletta
    Inscribed: 1980
    3.76
    383
    10
    St John Co-Cathedral tombstones
    See www.independent.com.mt
  • San Marino and Mount Titano
    Inscribed: 2008
    3.44
    296
    8
    The Statua della Libertà on Piazza della Libertà is made of white Carrara marble.
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
    Inscribed: 1998
    2.82
    302
    14
    The main altar of Bayonne Cathedral (Nomination file) – Church Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-et-Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Folleville: The recumbent figures of Raoul de Lannoy and his wife Jeanne de Poix are in Carrara marble, finely sculpted, and were considered by Léon Palustre to be "the most admirable artistic creation of northern France". (Wikipedia)
    See fr.wikipedia.org
  • Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.91
    324
    6
    The central bank main building in Madrid has monumental stairs made out of Carrara marble.
    See www.madridiario.es
  • Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
    Inscribed: 2021
    3.93
    252
    12
    The presbytery under the big dome in Padua's Duomo is completely in Carrara marble.
    See it.wikipedia.org
  • Monticello
    Monticello
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.22
    162
    12
    The Rotunda
  • Major Town Houses
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.95
    304
    8
    The first two flights of the stairs in the Horta House are in Carrara marble, going up the wall to the left. (Nomination file, p. 38)
  • Mafra
    Mafra
    Portugal
    Inscribed: 2019
    2.84
    152
    7
    The two towers are connected by two rows of Corinthian columns. The top row contains the statues of St. Dominic and St. Francis, sculpted from Carrara marble, standing in a niche on each side of the balcony. (wiki)
  • Kraków
    Kraków
    Poland
    Inscribed: 1978
    4.02
    437
    19
    Sarcophagus of St. Hedwig, Queen of Poland, in Wawel Cathedral
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Historic Cairo
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.66
    298
    11
    Mosque of Muhammad Ali - Muhammad Ali Pasha was buried in a tomb carved from Carrara marble, in the courtyard of the mosque (wiki)
  • Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2021
    3.28
    442
    16
    The "Old Baths" in Baden-Baden "were constructed on the orders of Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden on the site of old Roman baths (remains are preserved in the basement area, including Augustbad, the main round basin carved from Carrara marble)." (Nomination File, p. 214)
  • Florence
    Inscribed: 1982
    4.45
    587
    15
    Duomo + belfry + other churches and chapels apart from David and other statues
  • Assisi
    Assisi
    Italy
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.76
    249
    8
    The statue depicting Saint Rufinus of Assisi In the right nave of the Cathedral of San Rufino is a work sculpted in Carrara marble by the Frenchman Paul Lemoyne in 1823.
    See it.wikipedia.org