Castiglione Di Garfagnana

Castiglione Di Garfagnana

The territory Castiglione di Garfagnana stretches average Serchio Valley, between the Apuan Alps and the Apennines, in the area that is largely mountainous. First centre noble, was the vicarious. Cited for the first time in 723, Castiglione was originally Gherardinghi domination. Far defensive bulwark of the Lords of Versilia in Garfagnana against the expansion of Lucca in high Serchio Valley, was occupied and ravaged by Lucca once during the twelfth century, and thereafter in 1227. In 1370 the country was conquered by the Alderigo Antelminelli, although he returned almost immediately into the hands of Lucca. Then participated in the fight against Modena, in the early 1600, entering a short time later in the principality of Elisa Baciocchi Bonaparte. In 1819 power was transferred to Francis IV, the Duke of Modena. Only in 1860 the territory of Castiglione was annexed to the community of Garfagnana. Compared to other municipalities in the Garfagnana, in the past the country's economy was based on the use of chestnut forests and pasture. Currently instead the population is oriented towards the cultivation of grapes, potatoes and fodder, and minimally than cattle and sheep.

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