Viareggio is an Italian town in the province of Lucca in Tuscany. The name derives from Via Regia, an ancient communication route around which the village of Viareggio developed. It is known as a seaside resort, for its Art Nouveau architecture, for fishing, floriculture and for the Carnival, born in 1873. The city is an active industrial and artisan centre, especially in the field of shipbuilding. Viareggio is also known i ...

Torre del Lago Puccini, also known simply as Torre del Lago, is the only fraction of Viareggio, in the province of Lucca. Its territory is an active industrial and cultural centre, populated by about 12,000 inhabitants; known for hosting the house of the composer Giacomo Puccini, the Puccini Festival, floriculture, and when the municipality of Viareggio was divided into decentralization districts, it corresponded to that of District 1 ...

In its territory there are many characteristic environments. In fact, it goes from the beach of Lido di Camaiore to the peaks of the Apuan Alps such as Mount Prana, Mount Matanna, Mount Gabberi, passing through more or less high hills. The Capezzanese plain is also important, known for the cultivation of flowers or nurseries in general, in addition to the seafront of Lido and the hilly hamlets with small cultivations of vines and olive trees. From a hydrographic point of view, Camaiore is ver ...

Stazzema extends entirely to hilly and mountainous altitudes, being in fact in the Apuan Alps. It has a minimum altitude of 107 m a.s.l. and a maximum altitude of 1,858 m a.s.l. of Monte Pania della Croce. The territory is very steep and makes its urbanization very difficult, in fact it is almost completely wooded and rocky on the tops of some mountains such as the Pania and the Corchia. There are no large cultivated fields but only a few small and medium-sized vegetable garden ...

Seravezza is part of historic Versilia, together with the municipalities of Forte dei Marmi, Stazzema and Pietrasanta. Its territory has a rather varied morphology: to the east there are the reliefs of the Apuan Alps; further west is the foothills area including the hamlets of Basati and Azzano. The capita ...

The hamlet borders to the north with Poveromo (fraction of the municipality of Massa), to the east with the Renella, to the south with Vittoria Apuana (fraction of the municipality of Forte dei Marmi), to the west it is bathed by the Ligurian Sea; the locality develops on the southern limits of the Apuan coast. History To respond to the danger of pirate raids by Saracen pirates, in 1565 the fortified tower was built a ...

The rich archaeological evidence and reliable historical sources testify and prove the continuous presence of man in the land dominated by the ancient Pietra Apuana. Etruscans, Ligurians-Apuans, Romans and, after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the Lombards take turns here. The Longobard Duchy left a rich and varied legacy in the place: toponyms, surnames, foundations and, above all, the seed from which the Nobles of Corvaia and Vallecchia, feudal lords of Versilia, would late ...

Lacustrine environments and nature reserves The Municipality is home to Lake Massaciuccoli, which in turn is part of the Migliarino, San Rossore, Massaciuccoli Natural Park. The lake occupies a large depression originating from the formation of the Apennine chain and represents the advanced stage of an ancient coastal lagoon, which was encapsulated with the advance of the Versilia coastline. In the hamlet of Massaciuccoli, in particular, there is the Chiarone Nature Reserve, dedicate ...

Territory Montignoso lacks a common centre, but each hamlet has its own particular independence from the others. The Town Hall is located in the locality of Piazza, but the hamlet that has the most inhabitants and which sees the greatest presence of shops is that of Capanne. Cinquale is the hamlet with which Montignoso overlooks the Tyrrhenian Sea; here for some years there has been a modern tourist port (porticciolo de ...

Ronchi is a fraction of the Italian municipality of Massa, in the province of Massa and Carrara, in Tuscany. Seaside center located along the Apuan coast, it is one of the localities included in the seafront of Marina di Massa, bordering to the north with Marina di Massa center and to the south with the locality of Poveromo. The locality of Ronchi hosts a WWF educational center active in the recovery of wild animals and ...

Tonfano, originally “Tonfalo”, is one of the four localities into which the fraction of Marina di Pietrasanta is divided, together with Fiumetto, Le Focette and Motrone. The name comes from the river that flowed in the area and was later filled up. Tonfano borders Fiumetto to the north and Motrone to the south. History Tonfano was, in the 19th century, the first settlement destination among the four towns o ...

Marina di Carrara is a seaside resort on the Apuan coast, part of the municipality of Carrara, known as a holiday resort. The hamlet is part of an urban agglomeration interspersed with pine forests and parks, which extends seamlessly between the sea and the center of Avenza, where the Carrara-Avenza railway station is located, while to the west it joins the Ligurian town of Marinella of Sarzana. History Marina di Carrara, formerly known as Marina di Avenza, was born by the will of th ...

Marina di Massa is a fraction of the Italian municipality of Massa, in the province of Massa-Carrara, in Tuscany, known for being a renowned seaside resort on the Apuan coast. History The area was formerly marshy and unhealthy; it was the subject of settlements only starting from the 16th century, like much of nearby Versilia. In that period, in fact, the first reclamation works began, which were continued in the eighteenth century and which were definitively concluded only i ...

Forte dei Marmi is an Italian town of 7 133 inhabitants in the province of Lucca in Tuscany. Seaside resort overlooking the Ligurian Sea, it takes its name from the fort of the same name that stands in the center of the city, commissioned by the Grand Duke Leopold to defend the landing place, and from the marbles that from the nearby Apuan Alps were transported to the wharf for then take the sea route. Territory The municipality of Forte dei Marmi is located on the northern coas ...

Marina di Pietrasanta is a fraction of the municipality of Pietrasanta, on the Versilia coast, in the province of Lucca. This hamlet extends along the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea overlooking Pietrasanta and includes the 4 km of coast between Forte dei Marmi and Lido di Camaiore. Marina di Pietrasanta i ...