Versilia and surroundings |
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is known for a bulky tourist presence in the summer period, also for the Carnival and its floats of postcard is also a profitable industrial and handicraft center, above all in the field of the naval shipbuilding industry, for some time known all over the world, as well as for the fishing and the flower culture.
Camaiore is set down in a spacious basin to the feet of the first buttresses of the Apuan Alps, closed towards the sea from a chain of sweet hills that separate it from the coastal plain. The economy of Camaiore is based mainly on the tourism, thanks also to the numerous receptive structures is drawn in the last years. The mountains of marble are a naturalistic jewlery, protected from a natural park regional, ideal goal for the lovers of the nature.
Beach of Camaiore is characterized from the presence of numerous villas immersed in the Green one, from very spacious roads, from attractive squares with artistic fountains and gardens in proximity of the sea. Strong of the Marbles it is a commune of the province of Lucca. Become in the last hundred tourist years locality appreciated and known all over the world, knew to transform a part of the original environment in wonderful gardens.
Capital Pietrasanta historian of the Versilia is an international size center for the making of the marble and of the bronze. The historic city center is seat of numerous monuments, particularly Square Cathedral, where stands out the Cathedral of San Martino in style Roman-Gothic and the church suspended to the religion of Saint August in Roman style. Interesting also the road workers of the ancient Pietrasanta, like the feature via of the Riccetto with paving in pebbles of river, or road of the drinking Fountain, where is present astronomical Observatory.
The Province of Mass-Carrara was born from the coming merger of territories from the Big Ducat of Tuscany and from the Dukedom of Modena and Reggio. A characteristic element of the province are the Apuan Alps, mountains that reach a greatest height of 1945m in the Pisan mountain, and from that are extracted the famous marble of Carrara.
Between the Apuan Alps and the coast de la Versilia is extended the territory of the Commune of Massarosa. In a context varied and agreeable landscape, exceptional panoramic zones find like Mommio Castle, Corsanico, Bargecchia, the passes of the Quiesa, Pieve to Helixes, the summit of Gualdo and of Montigiano. Pietrasanta historical and artistic capital of the Versilia, Pietrasanta does belief to its tradition showing interesting religious examples of architecture, soldier and civilian. The large tradition craftsman is herself then maintained alive in the laboratories and in the workshop of the zone, in the businesses specialized in the area of the artistic mosaic and in the numerous foundries of art.
Seravezza is a common one mainly mountain. In the medieval age the story of the commune of Seravezza was characterized from the events of the families of the Corvaia and of the Vallecchia and from the wars against the nobility from Lucca.
The most important center from the economical point of view is Querceta and the most populous Wells.
Stazzema is inhabited from about 600 persons; the economy of the town is limited to some commercial and tourist activity and to some laboratories craftsmen. Is the most small commune of capital town of the Versilia. Is also that placed to the most raised altitude (443 m. s. m), on the slopes of the mountain Matanna. Tower of the Lake Puccini to the original name of Tower of the Lake was added in recent times that of Puccini for give back honor to the large composer Giacomo Puccini. Every year, in the summer period, in honor of Puccini it is held a lyric festival, the Festival Puccini. |
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