Sourrounding pescia

Surroundings and Tourist Routes

PESCIA

The City of Pescia stands at the bottom of a valley, to act as link between hills and plains, covered those groves treated as gardens, open to the south to the Arno river and the sea. The river that crosses the same name, Pescia, together unites and divides, leaving right and left two nuclei separate, with the deck of the Dome that always makes it a single center. The City took its name from the river, storpiando the Latin word Lombard, who just wanted to say river, while the Lombard date back more evidence of an ancient village. To the left of the river houses surrounding the Pieve hours cathedral, which was the centerpiece of urban development; on the opposite shore, a castle, a market and a feudal court stimulate the provision of houses for long lines parallel to the current. A fortified assured the bridge between the two towns souls. A document recalls in the 742, the Parish is mentioned in 951 "SITA LOCO Pisco." One of the most significant document cites Pescia 1084 for an act that extended into "PROP Pisco MAIORA iuxta ECCELESIA SANTE MARIE IN HERE VICO NOMINATUR Pisco." The higher center of Valdinievole already on the high Middle Ages, at the end of the twelfth century. Pescia is freed from imperial power and became a free municipality. He remained still for about two centuries under the influence of Lucca and only after 1328, the death of Castruccio Castracani, could train with Buggiano, Montecatini, Monsummano, Uzzano, Vellano, Sorico, Pietrabuona Collodi and the League of Municipalities of Valdinievole. Autonomy period a few years, because, by 1339 the City became Florentine domain. Even relatively prosperous, it became even more rich, as the beautiful palaces, monumental churches and convents of the largest major religious orders that you may encounter throughout the city center. Pescia due to the Medici family of the election of his parish church in 1519 in developed independently by the Bishops of Lucca. Doctors must always to the initial impetus to an extraordinary economic development, which began during the sixteenth century and lasted into practice until the nineteenth, based on the exploitation of agricultural resources, complemented by the use of extraordinary resource formed by the river and its waters. Setifici first arose and paper mills, tanneries and then ironworks, with mills and mills, all motivated both by falling water: a water and pure light, which ensured that the industries goodness of the product. Rich city, Pescia in 1699 was elevated by Cosimo III de Medici to the rank of Noble City and in 1726 Pope Benedict XIII transformed developed in the Cathedral and then at Bishop (Diocese). Today Pescia based on its rich cultural tourism and flower: olive trees, citrus fruits, plants apartment and cut flowers are exported successfully around the world and sold by many nurseries.