Province of Massa and Carrara

The Province of Massa-Carrara (Italian: Provincia di Massa-Carrara) is a province in the Tuscany region of central Italy. It is named after the provincial capital Massa, and Carrara, the other main town in the province.

Province of Massa-Carrara
Province
The village of Bibola south of Aulla
Map highlighting the location of the province of Massa and Carrara in Italy
Coordinates: 44.3°N 10°E / 44.3; 10
Country Italy
RegionToscana
Capital(s)Massa
Comuni17
Government
 • PresidentGianni Lorenzetti
Area
 • Total1,157 km2 (447 sq mi)
Population
 (30 June 2017)
 • Total195,832
 • Density170/km2 (440/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
54100
Telephone prefix0585
Vehicle registrationMS
ISTAT045
WebsiteOfficial website

History
Historical map of provinces of Massa, Lucca, Pisa and Livorno (1896).

The province of "Massa e Carrara" was born in 1859 from the separation of the Lunigiana and the Garfagnana from the Duchy of Modena. Originally it was composed of three circondari: I° "Circondario of Massa and Carrara" (a group of seven districts divided in 14 municipalities), II° "Circondario" of Castelnuovo Garfagnana (four districts divided in 17 municipalities), III° "Circondario" of Pontremoli (three districts divided into six municipalities).

Until the census of 1861, the province appears as part of Compartimento territorial Modena, Reggio and Massa, but since the census of the population of 1871 it has been counted as part of Tuscany. Later, with the "Regio Decreto n. 1913 of September 2, 1923", the municipalities of Calice al Cornoviglio and Rocchetta Vara were detached from the province and added to the new province of La Spezia. In the same period ("Regio Decreto n.2490 of November 9, 1923") the 17 municipalities of the "Circondario" Castelnuovo Garfagnana were removed from Emilia and assigned to the province of Lucca, in order to compensate for the passage to the new province of Pistoia of all the municipalities of the Val di Nievole.

The province of Massa and Carrara was left crippled, waiting for a reorganization. In 1938, the municipalities of Carrara, Massa, and Montignoso joined and became the municipality of Apuania. In the same year, the industrial zone Apuana was instituted, including in relative Consortium C.Z.I.The municipalities of neighboring Versilia and the province assumed the name of a province of Apuania. In 1946, with decree Lieutenant one (Umberto II of Savoia) the new municipality of Apuania was formed, and the province (for error and/or historical ignorance) resumptions the denomination does not date from 1859 when it was "Massa and Carrara" but Massa. This was the name that had been designated to the city of Massa or Massa of Carrara from 1700 until the formation of the Kingdom of Italy (1860), to distinguish it from other homonymous cities.

In 2009, both decrees of 1938 and 1946 were abolished, restoring the old name.[1][2]

Geography and administration

The province covers an area of 1,157 square kilometres (447 sq mi) and a total population of about 200,000.[3] There are 17 comuni (singular: comune) in the province.

Government

List of Presidents of the Province of Massa and Carrara
  President Term start Term end Party
Costantino Cirelli 1980 1985 Italian Communist Party
Ermanno Di Casale 1987 1990 Italian Socialist Party
Amedeo Boiardi 1990 1994 Italian Socialist Party
Franco Gussoni 1994 1998 Italian People's Party
Civic List
1998 2003
Osvaldo Angeli 2003 2008 Democrats of the Left
Democratic Party
2008 2013
Narciso Buffoni 2014 2016 Democratic Party
Gianni Lorenzetti 2016 Incumbent Democratic Party

Economy

The province's economical relevance, once mainly based on the production of the famous white Carrara marble, has now shifted to the importation and fabrication of blocks of marble and granite from all over the world.

See also

References
  1. (in Italian) Restituita la e a Massa Carrara
  2. (in Italian) Si torna all'antica denominazione
  3. Italian Institute of Statistics Archived 2007-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
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