Verrucola Fortress in Fivizzano a medieval village in the historic Lunigiana surrounded by a panoramic green landscape<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are looking for a nice village nestled in the greenery and to take a walk through history I recommend this place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The medieval building located in Verrucola<\/a> a hamlet of Fivizzano in the province of Massa Carrara in eastern Lunigiana<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The fortres whose documentationdates back to the beginning of the 12th century preserves all the elements of a fortified town witha real system of fortifications that responds to the military and legal organization of a feudal dominion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The history of the Verrucola Fortress is linked to the malaspina family and later to the de Bosi Family<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spinetta Marengho, lord of the malaspina family, tried to take the possession of it, trying to make it a strategic position but I entered into an exhaisting fight with Castruccio Castracani di Antelminelli lord and powerful leader of the Lucca city<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Verrucola Fortress in Fivizzano stands on a rocky spur at the confluence of the Mommio River with Collegnano canal<\/p>\n\n\n\n Formd by a square keep with a rectamgular tower that served as defense and Spinetta The Great completed the construction with made up of two doors<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1977 it was recovered and restored till today it is possible to visit it<\/p>\n\n\n\n The village the medieval bridge the walls and the castle are very suggestive. A few meters away stands a Watchtower with the round shape characteristic of the area<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fivizzano is 66 km about 56 min by car from B&B Miami beach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nHistory of the Verrucola Fortress<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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