The Medieval village of Pescaglia

The village of Pescaglia, of Medieval origin, still saves today the remains of its ancient walls and fortifications erected during the XVI-th century by the city of Lucca.

In the town rises the Romanic Saint John Baptist Parish, whose building goes back to 1102. The Parish still shows the simplicity of its original structure and it has different lateral portals, and on its facade, a main portal.

The Saint John Baptist Parish is on the plant of a Latin cross with three aisles and its inside is rich of fine decorations.

Photo Wikipedia

Close the historic centre of Pescaglia there are the Vetriano's little Theatre and the Chestnut-tree Museum.

The Vetriano's little Theatre is world wide known because it got in 1997 a Guinness record as the littlest theatre in the world. It has a seventy square meters surface but it well equipped with everything needed to organize a show. The little theatre was built at the end of the XIX-th century on a trapeziform plant and with two orders of galleries.

Very interesting is also the Chestnut-tree Museum, placed in the close locality of Colognora. Inside the museum it is possible to admire an ethnographic collection of both ancient and modern tools used for the picking, the threshing and the milling of the chestnuts.