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Pescia Mountains
The natural characteristics of the Pescia mountains have remained untouched over the course of time, and the beauty and quiet of their ten ancient walled villages are thus still preserved. True Medieval “castles”, surrounded by lush vegetation and rich with dense chestnut woods, acacias and pine trees that often open up over wide sun blessed lands mantled with olive groves.
Pietrabuona, Medicina, Fibbialla, Aramo, Sorana, San Quirico, Castelvecchio, Stiappa, Vellano and Pontito rise at varying altitudes between 110 and 750 meters and are now testimony to hundreds of years of history. Each of them has a tale of its own to unveil, still little known to mass tourism. This extraordinary coffer of historic treasures can be reached by taking the road that departs from the north of Pescia that is encased between the hill dominated by the former fortress of Barignano and the river, on the right hand side, from where a glimpse of the Romanesque church of S. Lorenzo a Cerreto can be caught.
The road proceeds along winding up through thicker and thicker vegetation, which will plunge visitors into suggestive, by-gone scenarios. The first of the ten walled villages scattered around this hilly land is Pietrabuona, the gate to this fascinating landscape, known as Valleriana, that the Swiss writer Sismondi defined as Pescia’s version of Switzerland (Svizzera Pesciatina).
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