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

Piteglio is found between goes them to them of the Torbecchia and the Liesina and dominates the Val di Lima, where it ran the tracing of the important and ancient transappenninica road that Pistoia to the Garfagnana joined. In the Xi-xii Piteglio century it was a castle fortified under the pistoiese control, whose architectonic testimonies today are read in the ancient houses that show oneself on the grips alleys that go up until the center of the country. Here the church of Saint rises Assumed Maria, whose bell tower from the squared shape reveals the ancient function of sight tower. In the small village two churches are present: the pieve of the Saintest one Announced, than the tradition it wants founded from Matilde di Canossa, documented already in 1040, and the church of Saint to XIII the century and modified Assumed, going back Maria in the centuries succeeded to you. Here an ancient cult was celebrated legacy to the reliquia of the sacred one latte of the Madonna, than the tradition it wants carried from the Terrasanta from a crusader, precious liquid that still conserve in the nail head of the Madonna of the Latte to the inside of a great seicentesco altar.