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Old Town Centre - Pontremoli, Massa Carrara

“Cesare Augusto Ambrosi” Museum of stele statues.
The museum is housed inside the Piagnaro Castle. It contains a series of Stele Statues, anthropomorphic sculptures that represent the most important artefacts of prehistoric times for Lunigiana, and are part of the wider phenomenon of European megalitic statues. They cover a chronological period that goes from the Copper Age to Roman Times. The meaning and purpose of these finds is still an open question. Accordino to the most accredited theories they represent male and female gods protecting the various aspects of human life.

Info: open every day from 9,00 a.m. to noon and from 2.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Closet Mondays (in winter), open every day from 9,00 a.m. to noon and from 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. (in summer). Cooperativa Puntremal - tel 0187 831439
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Chiesa di S. Giorgio (11th century)
A splendid example of Romanesque architecture with its perfectly preserved apse.

Duomo (17th century)
The construction work started in 1636. The building, designed by A. Capra from Cremona, has a Latin-cross plan, with a central nave and an “airy” dome. The interior, decorated with rich stuccoes, is lit by a spectacular “Ligurian style” lighting system and contains numerous lateral altars and confessionals made of polychromatic marble.

The Campanone (14th century)
Today, this is the symbol of the town. Originally it was the central tower of the Cazzaguerra wall, built by Castruccio Castracani degli Antelminelli in 1322 to divide the great piazza in two in order to keep the two rival factions, the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, separate. In 1578 the tower was transformed into a campanile.

Accademia della Rosa Theatre (18th century)
Built in 1739 by 25 noble families of Pontremoli, it opened in 1772, and is a typical example of an eighteenth-century theatre. It is the oldest in the Apuan province.

Chiesa e Convento di San Francesco (today the parish church of S.S. Giovanni e Colombano)
According to tradition, the convent was built in 1219 after the Saint passed through Pontremoli. The interior, with a nave and two aisles, is characterized by the stuccoes realized in the eighteenth century by the Ticino workshop of Portugalli. It houses many works of art, includine a bas-relief by Agostino di Duccio portraying the Madonna with Child, the wooden Choir realized by Luchino da Parma, The Ecstasy of Saint Francis by G.B. Cignaroli and the Crucifixion by Guido Reni.

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