Pescia

Pescia [ peʃ ː a] is ​​an Italian town in Tuscany in the province of Pistoia, with 19.420 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012).

Description

The municipality of Pescia is famous for its flower market and for the adventures of Pinocchio (Carlo Collodi). It is situated between Lucca and Florence and has an area of 79 km ². The city is situated on the banks of the river Pescia.

In the city there are two residential centers, the first public life on the left bank of the river and the second for the religious life on the right bank of the river. In the first there is the castle and the square and in the second the cathedral.

The municipality of Pescia, including several small villages in the mountains pesciatinischen. Jean -Charles- Léonard de Sismondi Simonde called the pesciatinischen mountains " Pesciatinische Switzerland " because these mountains were similar to Swiss mountains. All these villages are similar: all the villages have ( or had ) a city wall, a small church and a tower, which was the church tower. These towns are: Medicina, Fibbialla, Aramo, San Quirico, Castelvecchio, Stiappa, Pontito, Sorana, Vellano and Pietrabuona. Other villages in the municipality are Collodi, Veneri, Alberghi and Chiodo.

The most important buildings of the city are the palace Palagio, the Palace della Barba, and the Cathedral, the Town Hall and the library. Another important building is the old flower market (1951 ) for its modern architecture.

The community assets are: flower growing ( carnations ) and papermaking. Pescia is world famous for its flower production and flower sales ( they are called " city of flowers "), the city has very good relations with Belgium. Paper-making is very old, but many paper mills produce today quality paper and sell it in whole Italy. In Pietrabuona is the museum of the paper.

Pescia is an important educational center in their zone. In the city there are three professional schools: an accounting school, an agricultural school and a graphically - tourism vocational school, and there are four high schools: a humanist, a mathematical- scientific, a psycho- educational and a modern languages ​​school.

History of the City

After several archaeological excavations, archaeologists think that the Lombards built the first settlement here. The name of the city, Pescia, comb from a Lombard word meaning " river " meant.

Lucca grabbed Pescia, and destroyed it in the thirteenth century, the Pesciatiner rebuilt the city but quickly back on. During the Middle Ages Florence and Lucca contended for the city because it was an independent state on the borders of the two republics. After Pisa pointless trying to occupy, Florence reached them.

City assets were of mulberry cultivation and sericulture. It is said that the silkworm was brought by a monk pesciatinischen from the Far East for the first time to Europe.

At the end of the 17th century, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Pescia "City of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany " notified. The passage of Napoleon heavily damaged the city economy, because he shifted the silk with the sugar beet.

The bombing of the Second World War damaged Pescia, but the city recovered quickly. The New Flower Market was set up and as the flowers began sales in all over the world.

Local government

  • Mayor: Roberta Marchi, since June 2009.

Sons and daughters of the town

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