Tourist Consortium A.P.M. - Abetone Montagna Pistoiese

During the first days of August of 1530, on the pistoiese mountain, a battle between the troops flourishing some, guided from the General Commissioner of Campaign Francisco Ferrucci, and the imperial, numerically advanced troops, guided from Fabrizio Maramalbo, Alexander was carried out Year-old calves and from the prince of Orange. Francisco Ferrucci was to Pisa when he received the order to return to Florence in order to defend it from the imminent attack of the imperial troops. In order to obtain an effect surprised on the adversaries, decided to catch up Florence passing for lucchesi hills and the pistoiese mountain, touching Village to Buggiano in order then to go back crossing Collodi. Arrived in the vicinities of Vellano, Ferrucci cut until to Calamecca straight, crossed Prunetta, it headed to north in order to arrive to Saint Marcello and from here to Gavinana: the place of the crash. Francisco the life at the hands of the enemy Fabrizio Maramalbo lost Ferrucci, than had made it captive. To leave from the 1800's this battle it assumed of the symbolic values becoming freedom myth.