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

The country of Popiglio was ancient feudo of Conti Guides already around to the Thousands, and today its history wide is testified from the wealth of its artistic patrimony. For its strategic position of control of the territory on the lucchese border, it was often the center of the sour wars between Pistoia and Lucca, that they saw more times the destruction of the fortified village. Meaningful traces of the past are evidenced in the towers and the rests of the medioevale castle, in the architectonic structure of the inhabited center, but above all in pieve of Saint Assumed Maria, one of sacred monuments of greater relief of the Pistoiese Mountain. Founded in 1271, the church conserve to the outside the Romanesque structure, with the facade decorated from bassorilievi in stone, while the inner space was modified in the second half of the 1500's and enriched in the course of the centuries with works of art of large pregio that still they astonish the visitor. Close Museum of Sacred Art, prepared in ancient sacrestia and the oratory of the Company of the Corpus the Dominions, that it collects painted, sculptures, you furnish and it adorns to you liturgici, it completes this important distance of art and comprised popular religiosità in the system of the Ecomuseo of the Pistoiese Mountain. From the pieve four evocative routes leave that follow the paths of the ancient rogazioni, one of which come down towards the Lima torrent and lead to the medioevale bridge to one single arched said of Castruccio, a bewitched, dipped place in the green, nearly outside from the time.