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Castiglione Garfagnana Altitudine mt. 545 Distanza da Lucca: 60 km Municipio tel. 0583 68301

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Castiglione di Garfagnana is a stupendos impressing group of fortified buildings whose walls and towers and still intact. At the summit rises the imposing and wellpreserved fortress. Because of Castiglione's dominant and strategically important position it was considered the capital of Garfagnana up until the XV century. The first historical document that speaks of Castiglione refers to the substructure of the church and Monastery of Saint Peter, built at the request of the Longobard brothers Aurimand and Gudifrid in the year 723. The fortress that stands above is, in all probability, of about the same period. It remained under the rule of Lucca, even when in 1429 Garfagnana became part of the house of Este. The surrounding walls, constructed in the XIV century, defended the castle from the numerous repeated attacks of the Dukes of Este, who tried in vain to lay siege. Castiglione subsequently followed the events of the Republic of Lucca, therefore becoming subject to the Princes Baciocchi, to the rule of Austria and to the Bourbons. When Napoleon fell, and following the Treaty of Vienna, it passed over to the house of Este (1819) and was annexed to the Duchy of Modena, which already had Garfagnana under its dominion.

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