Carrara Cathedral

An older church, Ecclesia Sancti Andree de Carraria, is mentioned as existing on this site as early as 1035, but of it, only a bas-relief remains.

[3] The lower section of the façade and the side area near the St. John Portal are characterized by a bichrome decoration with geometrical marble tarsias.

This part of the building can be dated to the early 12th century by the influences of the Pisan Gothic style on the capitals and the architrave as well as the similarities in the alternating black and white marble patterning with the Tuscan churches of Pisa and Lucca.

In the interior, the capitals are in the Corinthian and Composite orders, and the mullioned windows have leaves, human and animal motifs, which are perhaps influenced by ancient Roman structures still existing in Lucca at the time.

[1] It houses the sarcophagus of St. Ceccardus, patron saint of Carrara, a 14th-century "Annunciation" (example of Pisan sculpture), and a 14th-century wooden crucifix by Angelo Puccinelli.