The first traces of humans in Lunigiana date back to the Paleolithic Age, while the Bronze Age marked the first Stele Statues, anthropomorphic sculptures whose iconography is found everywhere in this area, even on supermarket and road signs, but that we know almost nothing about. The Apuan Ligurian people resisted against the Romans for eighty…
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The Statue Stele
If you ask where Lungiana’s borders are located, prepare yourself to endure a never-ending academic discussion: someone says they are from Levanto to Montignoso, while others affirm that they are only located in the high Magra Valley, someone else doesn’t even contemplate this area and only considers a small bit of the Garfagnana territory. There are…
The Via Francigena
Following the same route described over 1000 years ago by Sigeric, the Archbishop of Canterbury, it’s possible today to make a similar journey, a truly moving experience through history, nature and traditions. Arriving from northern Europe, passing through the Alps, the Po valley plain and finally the Apennine mountain range we arrive in Lunigiana, with its…
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