Castelnuovo Di Garfagnana

Castelnuovo Di Garfagnana

Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, town in the province of Lucca, in the capital of Garfagnana. It rises at the confluence of river Serchio with the torrent of "Turrite Dry." In the area which is the border town of Pieve Fosciana were found traces of Etruscan and Roman. The earliest documented history of the village, however, date back to 740. Few have the information that we received the High Middle Ages, and the first centuries of Basso were found only documents that detect the presence of the church of St. Peter respect to the years 773, 839, 940, 986, 1045. In 1234, precisely on 26 July, the resignation is documented by the Lucchesi, Castle Castelnuovo the court of Rome, to be considered as a gift. During the century, three hundred, Castelnuovo is becoming a place of transit, turning into a real "southern port" in the valley of Garfagnana. In 1370 Castruccio Castracani encouraged people to attack its government Lucca, with the best until 1377, the year in which Lucca was able to resume control of the domain. In 1429, with the offensive in Florence that was penetrating in Garfagnana, and had already occupied the same Lucca, Castelnuovo submitted on purpose to Nicholas d'Este of Ferrara, thus freeing themselves from the domain of Lucca. The noble Este made the capital of Castelnuovo Garfagnana, also rewarding the people various privileges. Later it was conquered by the French troops of Napoleon, who aggregarono to Cisalpine Republic, and then annetterlo the Principality of Lucca in 1805, at the head of his sister, Elisa Baciocchi Bonaparte. Yes another until the Este yield Unification of Italy.

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