MARCIANA

It takes root to you on the pendii, from these you still leave is possible to admire those that it remains of the terrazzamenti cultivates to you to screw, cures to you with sacralità from the old generations of marcianesi. The zone was inhabited since the roman age, like attests reperti archaeological finds to you in the vicinities of the locality, that it has origin, in low-medieval age, like independent community comprising Marciana di Poggio, today Marciana and Marciana of Navy. During the domination of the republic of Pisa, Marciana came fortified becoming military bastion. Towards the end of XIV the century the territory passed under the lordship of the principato one of Appiani di Piombino, which built up you an elegant signorile palace. In 1799 it entered to make part of the French republic, against which it was not late however to rebel (its inhabitants went to besiege the French to Portoferraio). To the end of the French domination it was combined the granducato one of Tuscany. Between the buildings to visit we remember the Archaeological Museum, the medieval Doors of access to the country, the center to gradoni, the pisana Fortress, the House of the principles Levels with the foundry and the mint where they coined the coins, one small padronale church with the garden; the Church of Saint Niccolò, "House Goes" (where soggiornò the mother of Napoleone during its permanence to the sanctuary of the Madonna of the Mount) and the Church of Saint Lorenzo, of Romanesque invoice, destroyed from the Turks in 1554.

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