Capannoli

Capannoli

The village is located on the slope of a hill to the left of the river Era. In it we only news only during certain central centuries of the Middle Ages. Already fortified in the thirteenth century became possession of the family Della Gherardesca which then was sold in part to the Bishops of Lucca. He managed to become common free only for a short time, because of the hegemony of the Republic of Pisa. In the thirteenth and fourteenth century there were lordship and the Gambacorti Pisan Republic with the move in 1406 to the Republic of Florence. Among the buildings and constructions to visit, the beautiful Villa Comunale in late Baroque style, the botanical park adjacent to the villa, the Sanctuary of the Santissima Annunziata home late Gothic, rebuilt in Baroque style, the Zoological Museum, the Villa dei Conti Gotti-League, the Villa della Torre and the bell tower of St. Peter, born of the restructuring of the old guard belonged to the castle.

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