Marina di Massa is a fraction of the Italian municipality of Massa, in the province of Massa-Carrara, in Tuscany, known for being a renowned seaside resort on the Apuan coast. History The area was formerly marshy and unhealthy; it was the subject of settlements only starting from the 16th century, like much of nearby Versilia. In that period, in fact, the first reclamation works began, which were continued in the eighteenth century and which were definitively concluded only i ...