The
territory of the Commune of Seravezza (ab. 12.362 - Kmq 39,37)
it is composed from a level zone where situated are the centers
of Ripa, Wells and Querceta, a fondovalle with the countries of
Riomagno, Malbacco, Corvaia and Ruosina and the zone mountain
constituted by the fractions of Cerreta San Nicola, Fabbiano,
Giustagnana, Minazzana, Based, Cerreta Sant'Antonio and Azzano.
Seravezza, the chief town, is a laughing and exclusive town it
posts to the confluence of the stream Vezza with the Greenhouse,
framed by the Alpes Apuane characterized by dizzy walls of marble
from fresh woods of chestnut trees and from clear brooks.
Despite the landscape of the Commune of Seravezza is characterized
by an extreme environmental variety, the whole zone is countersigned
by the imposing presence of the marble; the basins marmiferi of
the Ceragiola, of the Chapel, of Trambiserras and of the Tall
Mountain produce in fact a marble whose unique characteristics
have made him/it famous. Today Seravezza is easily attainable
from the highway " A.12 " (Tollgate Versilia), from
the net ferroviara Pisa-Genoa (Station of Strong of the Marble-Seravezza-Querceta)
and from a good net of road communication that the colleague with
an important centers.
The
first documentable news historically on Seravezza they go up
again 1040, even if human installations already existed surely
in epoch preromana; The name " Seravezza " seems to
derive from a toponimo of the period Longobardo (Room Vetitia:
center of commercial exchanges). The history of Seravezza in
medieval epoch is characterized by the circumstances of the
noble of Corvaia and Vallecchia and by the persecutions effected
against them by the Commune of Lucca. Real earth of border,
was destroyed and busy innumerable times, first from the troops
lucchesi, then from those Florentine and finally from those
French. The first authentic action of the commune of Seravezza
goes up again to 1515 year when the city offered in Florence
the Ceragiola Mountain and The tall one.
Close to the numerous iron factories or " gizzard "
that you/they worked the veins of present materials in big copy
on the territory, it began the intensive exploitation of the
caves of marble that you/they became destination of famous sculptors
to the search of the precious statuary marble. From 500 in then
the history of Seravezza it coincides with that of the excavation
and workmanship of the marble, with his periodic phases of development
and crisis. Two bream arrests in correspondence of the periods
of belligerency are recorded for the world wars. The strategic
position of Seravezza was tragically reaffirmed really during
the second world war, when the country saw for nine months the
permanence of the front on the Gothic Line that caused mournings
and ruins and the destruction of whole villages of public works
and of industrial workshops. The reconstruction, thanks to the
appointment and the ability of our people, has been rapid and
complete.
SS.
Lorenzo e Barbara's dome The jobs for the construction of the Cathedral began
in 1422 on an area where a more ancient church probably rose (as
it attests a registration in characters situated semigotici near
the bell tower). After some interruptions and changes the Cathedral
was consecrated in 1569.
During the centuries has suffered varied works of embellishment
up to the II world war, when you/he/she was seriously damaged
by an aerial bombardment.
A lot of they are the valuable works that can admire you:
:: the baptismal source, recently restored, work attributed to
Stagio Stagi in white marble adorned of notable bas-reliefs.
:: the style capitular cross said gold Cross of the Pollaiolo,
commonly attributed to Francis Marti (XV century).
:: the Chapel of the Madonna of the Help in Baroque style that
preserves a painting to oil on blackboard.
:: the 1570 greatest altar, rich of marbles policromi, renewed
in 1683 from Jacopo Benti.
:: the Pulpit of marbles.
Pieve di San Martino (Loc. La Cappella) Placed
in a zone of exceptional panoramic interest, the church devoted
to St. Martin is entirely in marble; he/she is retained that has
been built around the year Thousand and widened in the century
XIII. Between 1518 and 1536 you/he/she was adorned with an ionic
parvis probably drawn by Michelangelo (gone destroyed unfortunately
during the II world war), with a frame around the roof and with
a called rose window ‘'Occhio of Michelangelo ' ', also
it attributed to the Florentine teacher. Inside the Church they
are admired a bas-relief (on the floor, to the center), a decorated
font with four figures that represent the ages of the life and
a tempietto tabernacle. Beside the Parish other buildings are
found, among which the oratory of the Holy Announced, situated
to the beginning of the old mulattiera, a building probably built
in 1700; the lacking roof, the unadorned boundaries and the great
marmoreal altar confer to this church a suggestive and mysterious
aspect.
Oratorio dell'Annunziata
Inside the Church of the Mercy - a voluntary organization of help
and founded assistance and working by now from 1859 - they are
guarded a splendid cloth of Pietro by Cortona, the ‘s 'Marie
to the sepulchre and a bas-relief of Donato Benti raffigurante
the Virgo with his Child. Under the loggiato, on the wall, a headstone
remembers that Michelangelo, surrendering to the will of Leo X,
it opened the caves of the Tall Mountain and ‘'ne three
years lasted to tame the sourness of the places and the inexperience
de the people lived in that place.
Palazzo Mediceo Among
1561 and 1565 was built for wish of Cosimo I of the Physicians,
duke of Florence, to protection of the magona of the iron. From
the simple architecture, almost severe of strengthened villa,
has been for many years the summer residence of the family of
the Physicians, of the Asburgo-Lorenas and of other noble Tuscan
families. With the Kingdom of Italy the building became center
of the Town hall and preserved such function up to 1967. To the
center of the splendid inside courtyard a well is found with a
true drawn by an only block of white marble with columns and lintel
surmounted by u trophy raffigurante a trout. A popular legend
wants that such trout both the copy of that fished in 1603 by
the Granduchessa Maria Cristina of Lorena in the stream Vezza,
in proximity of the Church of S. Paolo to Ruosina. Today in the
rooms of the first floor of the building numerous contemporary
shows are prepared while to the second floor the Museum of the
job and the popular traditions of the historical Versilia is found,
that concerns the tied up activities to the extraction and workmanship
of the marble, the job in the mines, the typical craftsmanship
and the uses and customs of the Versilia. Industria marmifera The Commune of Seravezza, rich of layers marmiferi, essentially
founds own economy on the extraction, the workmanship and the
commerce of the marble. On the territory they are numerous the
connected industries, first among all those manufacturing of machineries
for the workmanship of the marble. The activities of extraction
and workmanship of the marble boast an ancient tradition in the
area seravezzina. Cave give some Tall Mountain, of the Chapel,
of the Ceragiola and of Trambiserra they have been drawn out and
they are still extracted, the famous white marble, but also notable
harness him and arabescati.
Marble
Already in proximity of Seravezza the caves of Ceragiola are met,
epoch risalenti etrusca and from which said white marble is extracted,
note, white of Ceragiola. Surely interesting a visit results to
the Museum of the job and the popular traditions of the tall Versilia,
that finds space inside the known Building Mediceo. An ample section
of the museum is, in fact, devoted to the documentation related
to the extraction and workmanship of the marble. Just in proximity
of the Building Mediceo has beginning a path that conducts to
the caves of the Coast from which the white marble and the so-called
bardiglietto are extracted it Costs. Continuing in the Valley
of the Vezza, along the street of Arni, after the fraction of
Pontestazzemese, is met it Twirls, paesino whose cave has furnished
the breaches medicee. Always in the street of Arni, but in direction
Castelnuovos Garfagnana, are met small cave of Red Ruby. In proximity
of Retignano it is perceived, instead, the Corchia Mountain with
his caves of Arabescato and breach Fior of I Fish. Gone beyond
the Gallery of the Cipollaio it is reached the place Three Rivers,
ideal place to see from near the environment of the caves that
you/they serve as frame to the landscape. Here white Three Rivers
are extracted, Arabescato Faniello and Fantastic in the tallest
caves. Easily
attainable it is it gets by of the Cut ones, although is not of
certain the most suggestive. More complex is revealed, instead,
the access to other more fascinating cave, for instance to the
suggestive one it extracts some Cervaioles, on the Tall mountain,
from where the famous Arabescato is extracted that from it takes
the name. It gets by it is reached taking the road marmifera that
is opened to the left some entrance of the Gallery of the Cipollaio
and continuing for a tortuous run. The itinerary can be concluded
going down from the slope of Mass.
La geologia
The origin of the Alps Apuane goes up again ago to 200 million
years and derives to accumulate of sediments in a sea basin. The
emersione has happened ago 26 million years and it is followed
by compressive geologic movements; the increase of pressure has
caused the phenomenon of the metamorfismo that produces a suit
change of the primary structure. The rock in which the effect
of the metamorfismo is more evident is the marble. In origin calcareous
sedimentary rock formed by organisms builders as those of the
today's coral barriers, with the metamorfismo it has suffered
ricristallizzazione. In the Alps Apuane different types of marble
and these differences are found they derive from the purity of
the native rock. On the Tall Mountain we find the “white
statuary”, a deprived white limestone of impurities; the
colored marbles contain, instead, others mineral: the bardiglio
is grey, green the cipollino or the breaches of Seravezza.
Brief history:
The first documentations related to Stazzema go up again to the
IX century. Matilde of Canossa strengthened the footsteps of mountain
stimulating the civilization of the zone.
From the XV century, the economy starts to develop from it gets
by, that becomes the dominant element of the culture and the economy
of the zone.
Not to forget what it happened to Sant'Anna of Stazzema the August
12 of 1944, when the Nazi troops stormed in the village and they
exterminated more than 500 people, particularly women, children
and old men. The tragic moment is remembered by a monument with
the ossario and from a small museum.
Monuments: The
Commune of Stazzema is countersigned by the other Communes of
the Versilia to be fully grown from a series of small nucleuses
lived a great deal distant the one from the others and for the
greatest part in the high ground.
Principal activity is that estrattiva; numerous they are the caves
of statuary marble, ciclopici monuments that tear the mountains
and they reflect in the valley its white innocence.
A visit is recommended for also admiring her from far crossing
her numerous roads of mountain.
In the country of Stazzema, with his constructions in stone, they
are to signal the Tower of the clock (Tower Medicea) of 1739 and
the Cart Fountain of the XVI century.
To little distance the Sanctuary of the Madonna of the Piastraio
or Madonna of the Bell' it rises love, suggestive building erected
where in the XVII century an image of the Madonna was recovered.
It is reached crossing a path for about 5 minutes departing from
the Parish afoot. The building has been restored in the year 2002-2003
and is introduced under good conditions. To few footsteps from
Stazzema we find the Chiersa of Saint Maria Assunta (IX century)
declared national monument. Also considering the position in which
it rises, a visit is to retain you of obligation. Its façade
is introduced simple with a sixteenth-century marmoreal rose window.
A great deal the richer inside is separated in three aisles from
a series of columns surmounted by capitals Gothic-Romans. In the
presbytery we find a shovel raffigurante the Assumed Madonna attributed
to the Rosselli. The seventeenth-century altar is elegantly worked
but, the piece more main point of the building is the organ of
the Seven hundred one.
To the feet of the Corchia mountain, we find the countries of
Retignano, Terrinca and Levigliani, all to be visited.
Worthy of note in this I complete the necropolis preromana.
In the country of Ruosina it is interesting a very particular
monument, an enormous trout in memory of that fished by Maria
Cristina of Lorena in 1603.
Pomezzana, with his Church of san Rocco, preserve important works
of oreficeria lucchese.
To Volegno, a Five hundred oratory is preserved; in the near Thornbush,
more known country for the Living Manger, in the Church of san
Niccolò, a Museum of the Works is entertained.
Isolasanta, small country to the feet of the Sumbra mountain,
is famous for the Pots of the Giants, enormous hollow it eroded
from the water in the hard rock during the millennia.
To also visit in the country of Sant'Anna the Monument Ossario
and the Museum of the Resistance.
Coat:
Of blue to the silver bar loaded of a gold lily, sets in gang,
approached by two rings of the same; the bar surmounted from a
castle torricellato of two, to the natural one, accompanied in
stung by a gold sun. The ancient coat of arms of the vicaria of
Stazzema was an arm covered with armor in action to beat a hammer
on the anvil.
The symbols remembered the remote manufacture of the iron, active
in the territory and also represented in one of the colors of
the coat of arms, the black. The other colors, the red and the
blue, were proper of the community. With to spend some time, the
coat of arms has been completely modified. Up to the beginning
of the century, the ancient job was remembered by two black pestles,
set close to the Florentine lily, surmounted from a castle and
illuminated by a gold sun. The pestles are transformed, modernly,
in two bracelets, while they are remaining, even if sets in the
shield in different way, the other symbols, that the tower of
Stazzema and the Florentine dominion and the sun remember, that
it is symbol wish her.
The
first documentable news historically on Seravezza they go up
again 1040, even if human installations already existed surely
in epoch preromana; The name " Seravezza " seems to
derive from a toponimo of the period Longobardo (Room Vetitia:
center of commercial exchanges). The history of Seravezza in
medieval epoch is characterized by the circumstances of the
noble of Corvaia and Vallecchia and by the persecutions effected
against them by the Commune of Lucca. Real earth of border,
was destroyed and busy innumerable times, first from the troops
lucchesi, then from those Florentine and finally from those
French. The first authentic action of the commune of Seravezza
goes up again to 1515 year when the city offered in Florence
the Ceragiola Mountain and The tall one.
SS.
Lorenzo e Barbara's dome
Among
1561 and 1565 was built for wish of Cosimo I of the Physicians,
duke of Florence, to protection of the magona of the iron. From
the simple architecture, almost severe of strengthened villa,
has been for many years the summer residence of the family of
the Physicians, of the Asburgo-Lorenas and of other noble Tuscan
families. With the Kingdom of Italy the building became center
of the Town hall and preserved such function up to 1967. To the
center of the splendid inside courtyard a well is found with a
true drawn by an only block of white marble with columns and lintel
surmounted by u trophy raffigurante a trout. A popular legend
wants that such trout both the copy of that fished in 1603 by
the Granduchessa Maria Cristina of Lorena in the stream Vezza,
in proximity of the Church of S. Paolo to Ruosina. Today in the
rooms of the first floor of the building numerous contemporary
shows are prepared while to the second floor the Museum of the
job and the popular traditions of the historical Versilia is found,
that concerns the tied up activities to the extraction and workmanship
of the marble, the job in the mines, the typical craftsmanship
and the uses and customs of the Versilia. 
Easily
attainable it is it gets by of the Cut ones, although is not of
certain the most suggestive. More complex is revealed, instead,
the access to other more fascinating cave, for instance to the
suggestive one it extracts some Cervaioles, on the Tall mountain,
from where the famous Arabescato is extracted that from it takes
the name. It gets by it is reached taking the road marmifera that
is opened to the left some entrance of the Gallery of the Cipollaio
and continuing for a tortuous run. The itinerary can be concluded
going down from the slope of Mass. 
The
Commune of Stazzema is countersigned by the other Communes of
the Versilia to be fully grown from a series of small nucleuses
lived a great deal distant the one from the others and for the
greatest part in the high ground.
Of blue to the silver bar loaded of a gold lily, sets in gang,
approached by two rings of the same; the bar surmounted from a
castle torricellato of two, to the natural one, accompanied in
stung by a gold sun. The ancient coat of arms of the vicaria of
Stazzema was an arm covered with armor in action to beat a hammer
on the anvil.