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AULLA
The bombs from the WWII deleted the medieval centre of Aulla,
which today only preserves the remains of the marvellous Fortezza
della Brunella, an imposing rectangular building designed at the
beginning of the 16th century to resist any attack. Today the fortress
is surrounded by a great botanical garden and hosts the Museo di
Storia Naturale of Lunigiana where, you find animals from the area.
Visit the remains of the Abbazia di San Capraio, of which there
are only some pilasters of the cloister and the Romanesque apse
left. In the surroundings you can visit the villages of Bibula and
Pallerone where you find a mechanical Christmas crib made 50 years
ago, and the fortified village of Caprogliola, with the boundary
wall built by the Medici family and still well preserved.
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At
Aulla the inhabitants celebrate many festivals. Sunday after the 15th
of August, the whole village contends the Coppas Italiana del Gioco
della Morra, in September the streets are plotted with long tables
for the Focacetta Festival, while the Epiphany the inhabitants make
the longest socks in the world, with a small sock inside from each
person, which is then hanged out from the bell-tower.
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HILLS
