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

The road, been born officially in the second half of the 1700's in order to facilitate the commerce between Pistoia and Modena, in truth carried out a pre-eminent military and political role being the main artery of connection, through Pistoia, between Livorno and Florence from one Parte and Modena, Mantova, Milan and the Hasburg Empire from the other. The plan came entrusted to Abbot Leonardo Ximenes for the from Tuscany depositor and to the engineer Peter Garden for the modenese part. Nel1778 came opened the valico of the Abetone, one of the last jobs you execute yourself, and in the 1781 road it came inaugurated. In occasion of the opening of the road the Slabs came completed the buildings of the mail stations de, of Saint Marcello, Pianosinatico and Boscolungo. Endowed of inns and scuderie for the pause of the horses, the mail divennero very soon centers of services around to which grew live to it to you that still today they define the comprensorio of the High Appennino Pistoiese. Of the important artery they not only are you use migliaia of travellers of every rank, but sometimes the road has been witness of the great events of the past. In the 104 if of it it served Pope Pio WAYS in order to o to Paris, where general Napoleone Bonaparte had to come incoronato Emperor. The same Napoleone little years before, in 1796, had entered with its troops in Tuscany just passing for the valico of the Abetone. Defined from Vittorio Flagmen "my most direct and much poetica road", the way Modenese is today one attended road, but still in a position to offering to beautiful ends on the greens Appennine ridges.