A famous white or bluish marble from quarries in Carrara, Italy, highly prized for sculptures and architecture.
Named after the town of Carrara in Tuscany, Italy, where these distinctive marble quarries have been worked since ancient Roman times. The place name has become the common term for the marble type.
Carrara marble is so iconic that Michelangelo's David and many of the world's greatest sculptures are carved from it—the name of one Italian town became synonymous with timeless beauty because of 2,000 years of perfect marble.
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