Tuscany
Pescia
Pescia is physically split by its river into a religious city around the cathedral and a civic city around the town hall. Water powered silk mills, paper mills and tanneries before modern floriculture made the town nationally known. Medieval churches, palaces, theatre, industry and the flower market create a highly distinctive Tuscan story.
Stories in Pescia
- Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta: The Religious Half of Pescia
- Piazza del Duomo: The Episcopal Side of the River
- Bishop’s Palace: Pescia Becomes an Episcopal City
- San Francesco: Franciscan Art and Urban Expansion
- Santi Stefano e Nicolao: A Church with Medieval Roots
- Madonna di Piè di Piazza: Devotion in the Commercial Center
- Piazza Mazzini: Pescia’s Civic Half
- Palazzo del Vicario: Municipal Authority beside the Market
- Clock Tower: Timekeeping over the Civic Square
- Palazzo Cardini: Elite Residence in the Civic Quarter
- Palazzo Cecchi: Domestic Prestige beside Civic Institutions
- Teatro Giovanni Pacini: The Town Builds a Cultural Institution
- Gipsoteca Libero Andreotti: A Sculptor Returns to Pescia
- Central Bridge over the Pescia: The Town’s Two Halves Meet
- Pescia River: Water as Industrial Power
- Former Silk-Mill Landscape: Florentine Manufacturing in Pescia
- Paper-Mill Landscape: Water into Sheets
- Tannery Landscape: A Dirtier River Industry
- Old Long Market: Commerce before the Modern Flower City
- Historic Florence Route: Pescia after 1339
- Historic Lucca Route: The Rival City beyond the Valley
- Comicent Flower Market: Floriculture Goes Industrial
- Floriculture District View: Greenhouses as Urban Economy
- Pescia Railway Station: The River Town Joins Regional Mobility
- Historic Hospital District: Care as Urban Institution
- Medieval Castle and Walls Memory: The Town before the River Industries
- Palio degli Arcieri Setting: Medieval Identity Re-enacted
- Upper River Walk: From Industrial Water to Urban Landscape
- Bridge Panorama: Cathedral Pescia and Civic Pescia in One View
- Pescia Panorama: The River Explains the City