Tuscany
Pontremoli
Pontremoli is a medieval and Baroque trading town at the foot of the Cisa Pass, shaped by the Via Francigena, fortified factional conflict, mercantile wealth, religious orders and the Magra and Verde rivers. Its Piagnaro Castle now guards the mysterious Lunigiana stele statues, while bridges, palaces, churches and theatre reveal the town that grew rich by controlling passage.
Stories in Pontremoli
- Castello del Piagnaro: The Fortress above the Pass Roads
- Museo delle Statue Stele Lunigianesi: The Stone Ancestors of Lunigiana
- Porta Parma: Entering the Upper Medieval Town
- Church of San Geminiano: The Patron Saint above the Old Town
- Campanone: The Tower Built to Divide Guelfs and Ghibellines
- Piazza della Repubblica: The Lower Civic Square
- Palazzo Comunale: The Free Comune Leaves an Administrative Heir
- Palazzo Pavesi: Merchant Wealth Faces the Civic Square
- Palazzo Bocconi: Baroque Pontremoli as a Merchant City
- Piazza del Duomo: The Sacred Square behind the Campanone
- Co-Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta: A Plague Vow Becomes a Cathedral
- Palazzo Vescovile: A Noble City Becomes a Diocese
- Museo Diocesano: Christianization along the Francigena
- Palazzo Dosi Magnavacca: Baroque Merchant Ambition
- San Francesco: Franciscan Pontremoli
- Piazza San Francesco: Religion, Theatre and Everyday Town Life
- Teatro della Rosa: Twenty-Five Noble Families Build a Rococo Theatre
- Ponte della Cresa: A Medieval Crossing over the Verde
- Torrente Verde: The Watercourse beneath the Medieval Bridges
- Church of San Nicolò: One Half of the Bonfire Rivalry
- Church of San Pietro: A Via Francigena Landmark
- Via Francigena South Gate: Leaving Pontremoli toward Rome
- Santissima Annunziata: A Pilgrimage Sanctuary outside the Old Walls
- Annunziata Convent: A Religious Complex on the Francigena Approach
- Martyrs of Ponticello Memorial: War Reaches the Pilgrimage Road
- Villa Dosi Delfini: Baroque Country Life above the Town
- River Magra: The Valley Route beneath the Town
- Piazza Italia: Modern Civic Life beyond the Medieval Core
- Pontremoli Railway Station: The Pass Route Enters the Rail Age
- Piagnaro Panorama: Reading the Gateway Town as a Whole