The Garfagnana

Garfagnana is the "High" part of the Serchio Valley to the northern limit of the Region of Tuscany, rich in history and tradition, very close to important historical towns such as Lucca, Pisa and Florence.
This valley, created by the Serchio River and its affluents, is a treasure chest full of natural treasures, surrounded by the chain of the Apuan Alps and the Appennino Tosco - Emiliano.
By the contrast between these two environments, not only morphologically, but also socially and traditionally different, is an unusual range of images and colors.
This is the ideal environment for those who want to live in direct contact with nature at the same time discovering the story of a valley and the traditional hospitality of its inhabitants.
Explore the Garfagnana on horseback, on foot, mountain bike, it means, review, following the paths and the old mule tracks, the story of these mountains.
Tourist attractions
History of the Garfagnana
Itineraries of the Garfagnana
Events
Municipalities in the Garfagnana and Media Valle
Bikeways - Mountain bike
Painters
Photographers
Link to others site
Portals to Promote Tourism, Accommodation.
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What to see in Garfagnana - Attractions
The Apuan Alps

The Alps as a whole, represent an environment of the most interesting from the point view of vegetation, as they stand by more thermophilous Mediterranean horizons, characterized by the forest plan sphere and the coastal maquis of Versilia, to reach to their peaks and slopes in Garfagnana horizons typically Alpine and microtia, through a variety of fitocenosi that it is difficult to find in such a short space and include many rare species, and other endemisms.
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L' Omo Morto: Foto
The legend of the "Uomo Morto del Monte Pania"
The Apuan Alps Natural Park: parcapuane.toscana.it, parks.it
The Fortress of Verrucole.

The Fortress of Verrucole, also known as Castle, is situated in the middle of the Garfagnana, the hill of the village of the same name Verrucole (655 m asl) in the municipality of San Romano in Garfagnana.
It is one of the most beautiful medieval buildings that we can find in this area.
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Links:castellitoscani.com: Position and history, Photos
The Wind Cave, La Grotta del Vento

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Located at the heart of the Natural Park of the Apuan Alps is one of the most complete European caves, presenting an extraordinary variety of phenomena which are outlined with precision and skill by experienced caving guides.
Contacts:
Tel.: 0583 72.20.24
Municipality of Vergemoli
Open all year (except on public holidays of Christmas and Easter) from 9 am to l9.
La Via Vandelli.
Between 1739 and 1752 the Duke of Modena Francesco III built by the "mathematical" Domenico Vandelli a road to connect Modena Massa, through the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines.
Marriage Cybo-d'Este, established in March 1738 and celebrated in April 1741 for the dynastic interests of the Este family in Modena providing an outlet to the sea, was the reason for this route of communication with Tuscany.
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Storia: Il monte Tambura
Hermitage of Calomini.

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The Hermitage of Calomini is an impressive architectural complex located at the base of a large overhanging wall about 70 meters high, is built for 15 meters into the rock. read more...
Old restaurant of Hermitage of Calomini
Botri Ravine (Orrido di Botri).

The Ravine of Botri is a canyon, rugged and imposing limestone gorge, with steep walls carved by deep cold waters of the river Rio Pelago. The canyon is part of a landscape characterized by Appennine cave environments and extensive beech forests, dominated by the peaks of Mount Rondinaio and the Tre Potenze of almost 2000 meters in height.
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Campocatino

The primitive basin of Campocatino, dominates the valley and hosts a variety bird and a campfire with a restaurant.
This pastoral village is called Campocatino because of the large glacial corrie characterizing the local morphology. read more...
Vagli's Lake

Vagli is located in the center of the Natural Park of the Apuan Alps to 583 meters above sea level.
This village offers lovers of nature, the charm of its marble mountains, the quiet magic of the lake.
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The village submerged: histoty and photos
Hermitage of Saint Viviano

The hermitage of Saint Viviano or Viano is a charming building dug deep into the rock overlooking the valley of Arnetola place of life and prayer of the hermit Viviano.
The small shrine dedicated to Saint Viviano (or Viano) represents a unique abri-chapel under the rock in the apuan area. Located a short distance from Campocatino, dominates the Pit of the Mont Tambura and the Valley of Arnetola.
Up to this villa in the foot of Pania, overlooking a ravine jumps, there is an oratory which serves roof cave, dedicated to the Blessed Viviano, in which place he lived and did penance. read more...
Ethnographic Museum of San Pellegrino in Alpe

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At 1,525 meters above sea level rises the village that is located at the highest point of the Apennines: San Pellegrino in Alpe.
A strategic point, in the past that connected the north of Italy with the rest of the peninsula.

The history of the village and its importance is reflected from crossing hospitable, that today houses the Museum of Ethnography (Museum of the campaign and the past life), ("Museo della campagna e della vita di ieri").
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Link:
rifugioburigone.it
Castelnuovo di Garfagnana

The Territory, The Ariosto's fortress , The Cathedral, the fortress of Monte Alfonso, The Convent of San Giuseppe, The Archaeological Museum, Market and fairs read more...
The Theater Alfieri
Località La Croce ( The Sanctuary )
Archaeological Museum of the Territory; Castelnuovo di Garfagnana (0583 36.27.48); Visits by appointment
La Fortezza del Monte Alfonso: montalfonso.it
Fattoria Didattica: fattoriadidatticagarfagnana.wordpress.com
Links:
- comuni-italiani.it
Fortress of Camporgiano

Medievale feud, the territory was disputed between Pisa and Lucca. Lucca became the owner in the thirteenth century. Passed to the Florentines in the fifteenth century was Estense dominion.
Fortified medieval (fourteenth century), originally consisted of a small structure, with thin walls and high, to guard the valley of the river Serchio. read more...
Museo: Civic collection of Renaissance ceramics
Camporgiano (0583 61.88.88)
Visits by appointment
Walls and Fortress of Castiglione

Its medieval origins is documented by the destruction suffered in the 1170 and 1227.
Under control of the children of Castruccio Castracani became the most important garrison in the valley of Lucca Serchio. read more...
Bagni di Lucca: Terme e Ponte delle Catene

Bagni di Lucca, the largest mountain Town of Italy, is divided in two by the river Lima, which crosses it.
Ancient spa, is located on the bottom of the F. Lima at its confluence in the Serchio. Known since the Middle Ages as "Heads of Corsena" for the therapeutic presence of the station and for its curative waters. read more...
The Sanctuary of Nostra Signora della Guardia, Minucciano

The Sanctuary of Nostra Signora della Guardia is on top of Mount Argegna between the side of the Lunigiana and the Garfagnana, close to, Passo dei Carpinelli in the town of Lucca, one of the most beautiful and visited the Garfagnana.
Its geographical position, unique and evocative, giving rise to those natural features that have made him, Over the years, one of the most popular destinations by tourists from everywhere.
At the sanctuary, built on a broad plateau is reached, both the Lunigiana and Garfagnana, crossing the Passo dei Carpinelli.
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Il Parco Argegna
Orto di Donna

Orto di Donna is a very picturesque alpine scenery and important in terms of natural beauty.
Are some clear evidences of majestic boulders lying in the valley and away from walls; signs of a glacial Pleistocene. read more ...
The Magdalene's Bridge, said "The Devil's Bridge"

The Magdalene's Bridge, said "The Devil's Bridge" is without doubt the most impressive monument of the municipality of Borgo a Mozzano.
It was built to connect the two shores of the river Serchio to the confluence with the Lima to make it possible to achieve the already well-known spa of Bagno a Corsena (today Bagni di Lucca). read more ...
Giovanni Pascoli

Giovanni Pascoli was born in San Mauro di Romagna on December 31 1855, fourth son of Caterina Vincenzi Alloccatelli and Ruggero Pascoli, administrator of the estate of the principles Torlonia, where the family moved in 1862.
So the child lives in S. Mauro, and joined to seven years at the College of Scolopi of Urbino.
In 1867 his father was killed in an ambush: it is the beginning of a series of family misfortunes, including the death of his mother the following year, which have a profound effect on life and especially about the poet. read more... Biografia, house museum of the poet
Contacts:
Giovanni Pascoli's House - Castelvecchio Pascoli (0583 76.61.47)
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 9 am to 18

Links:
Giovanni Pascoli Foundation fondazionepascoli.it
Small thermal lake of Prà di Lama

Apparently that is a small lake where ducks swim some quiet.
The reality is a lake of thermal origin. This we feel is touching the water that comes out of the pipe that feeds.
The lake is fed by several springs, some of which are underwater.
Usually no specific abnormalities, but the situation is far from stable.
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Voltoline of Levigliani.

The trail called "The Voltoline" is a characteristic steep stretch, bends in the road, from the village of Levigliani, located on the western side of the Apuan Alps, leads to the mouth of Mosceta between Corchia and the Mount Pania della Croce.
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Pianiza.

The main rock of the plateau Pianiza is situated atop a small tower projecting rock on the small valley below the Borra di Canala. read more...
Antro del Corchia.

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Legend: The wild man of Mount Corchia
Chestnut Museum

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Birthplace family Puccini

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Celle di puccini - Pescaglia
Visits by appointment.
Museum of plaster statuettes or Museum of Plaster Figurine and Emigration

Coreglia Antelminelli (058378082)
It tells the story of the migration of manufacturing and Middle Valley of the last four centuries.
There are ample spaces for the methods used to create the statues, the exposure of sacral objects and those created by emigrants from all over the world (kittens blackened with the smoke of a candle, busts of Greek and Roman philosophers, forms and various reproductions).
Visits by appointment.
Civic Museum of Barga

BARGA (0583 72.471)
Visits by appointment.
Orecchiella's Park

The Orecchiella's Park, is located on the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, on the other side of the Garfagnana, on a large limestone plateau dominated by the Pania of Corfino.
This is an area protected by the State Forestry Corps composed of impressive forests of beech, chestnut and fir trees, with, again today, hosted and protected numerous species of wild animals, as the Apennine wolf, deer, roe deer, mouflon and wild boar, grouse and black bears. The skies are dominated by raptors such as hawks and eagles.
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Eco-museum of the Upper Garfagnana

Eco-museum is an agreement by which a community takes the responsibility for collecting, preserving, transfer to the future of its cultural identity and territorial.
This definition, which is the most common, says all that is Eco-museum of the Upper Garfagnana.
It is an instrument consisting of cultural itineraries that show the identity of this land: routes of the "Liguri Apuani", of the Middle Ages, castles, country culture, along which are located these museums and archaeological parks:
- Museum of the Identity of the Upper Garfagnana "Olinto Cammelli" (Gorfigliano, Old Church),
- Archaeological Park of the Ospitale (Mountain hut, refuge) of St. Nicholas of Tea (near Mount Argegna),
- Tower of Pugliano,
- Castle and Ghost Village of Bergiola,
- Sanctuary of the Statue Stele (Hermitage of Minucciano). read more...
Pratofiorito

Prato Fiorito Mountains (1297m) dominate the area of Bagni di Lucca, the top of them you can enjoy a beautiful view. Even if they do not have very high strategic position.
The mountains have the character to be free of vegetation and covered with flowers in spring, making the whole a unique show! continua...

All the Municipality of Garfagnana and Middle Valley are in the Province of Lucca

Municipalities of the Garfagnana

Camporgiano
Careggine
Castelnuovo di Garfagnana
Castiglione di Garfagnana:
Fosciandora
- The Sanctuary
Gallicano
Minucciano
- Pieve San Lorenzo
Molazzana
- Village Sassi
- Village Eglio
Piazza al Serchio
- I Torrioni
- Village Nicciano
- San Michele
- The locomotive
Pieve Fosciana:
San Romano in Garfagnana
- The Fortress of Verrucole - panoramic from Vibbiana
- Village Sillicagnana
- Village Villetta
- Locality Sanbuca
The hamlet of Sambuca is 2.4 kilometers from San Roman and rises 395 meters above sea level; there reside between 20-30 people.
- Selva del Buffardello - Parco Avventura;
località Prà di Lago(zona sportiva): percorsi acrobatici forestali aperti a tutti, sospensione in aria. selvadelbuffardello.it
Sillano Giuncugnano
- Sillano-Ospedaletto: is a motorcycling event. This is one of the hill climbs of the Italian Hill Climb, trophy held annually in August.
Vagli Sotto
Fabbriche di Vergemoli:
- Eremo di Calomini.
- Fornovolasco: Old iron working.
- Lake Trombacco: caratteristic lake set in a gorge, and full of trout.
Villa Collemandina:
- Romanesque parish church of San Sisto, with an adjoining cloister work of the Masters Comacini.
- Corfino: Ancient fortified village and port with medieval houses. Resort.
- Pania of Corfino: Area of interest in landscape and environment, including in the natural park de Orecchiella.
- Village Sassorosso: