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Pescia and its history b>
The town of Pescia stands at the bottom of a valley, to make a link between hills and
Plains; covered those treated as olive gardens open to this
South to the Arno and the sea.
The river that traverses the same name, Pescia together and unites
Divide, leaving right and left two distinct nuclei, with the bridge of the Dome
That always makes it a single center. The town took its name from the river, storpiando
The Latin word Lombard, which meant precisely river, and at the time of
Lombard dating the oldest evidence of a settlement.
To the left of the river houses surrounding the Cathedral Parish hour, which was the
Fulcrum of urban development, on the opposite shore, a castle, a market and a
Feudal court stimulated placement of houses in long lines parallel
To the electricity supply. A fortified assured the bridge between the two souls
Towns. A document recalls in the 742, the Parish Church is remembered in 951 (SITA PISCIA LOCO) b>. A most significant document of 1084
Cites Pescia extended for an act that year.
Major centre of the Valdinievole already into the Middle Ages, at the end of the XII
Sec. Pescia is liberated from imperial power and became a free municipality. Remained
However, for about two centuries under the influence of Lucca and only after
1328, the death of Castruccio Castracani b>, could train with Buggiano,
Montecatini, Monsummano, Uzzano, Vellano, Sorico, Pietrabuona and Collodi League
Communities of Valdinievole. Un'autonomia lasted a few years, because by 1339
The city became domain fiorentino.Già relatively prosperous, it became yet
Richer, as the beautiful palaces, churches and monuments large
Convents of the largest religious orders that you may encounter throughout the
Old town. Pescia due to the Medici family of the election of its Pieve
In 1519 in the autonomous Prepositura Bishops Lucca. Doctors should always
The initial impetus to an extraordinary economic development, which began in Corsican
Of the sixteenth century and lasted into practice until
Nineteenth, based on the exploitation of agricultural resources, integrated with
The use of extraordinary resource formed by the river and its
Waters. Sorsero first setifici and paper mills, tanneries and then ironworks, along with
Mills and mills, all from energy Mossi falling water: water
Light and pure, which ensured industries goodness of the product. City
Rich, Pescia in 1699 was high by dè Medici Cosimo III b> to the rank of
City and the 1726 Noble Pope Benedict XIII b> transformed in the Prepositura
Cathedral and then at Bishop (Diocese). Today Pescia bases its wealth
On tourism and cultural florovivaismo: olive, citrus fruits, plants apartment
And cut flowers are exported successfully around the world and sold
Directly by many nurseries.