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

Saint Marcello, one of the tourist centers more appreciates to you and known for summery stays since the 1800's. The country rises on a sunned hill, covered from greens forests, that it degrades sweetly towards goes it them of the Limestre torrent. The village, perhaps of roman origin, offers to the visitor the testimonies of the centuries passes to you, when, since the 1300's, contendeva with Cutigliano the center of the Commanded one of the Mountain. In the pieve Romanesque titolata to Saint Marcello, modified in the XVII and XVIII century, the reliquie of Celestina Saint, female saint of the protecting country and of the mountain, celebrated are conserved the 8 September with a great festivity that culminates every year with the launch of one most colorful mongolfiera of paper constructed on the base of the designs of the Mongolfier siblings. Numerous they are the excursions that can be made from Saint Marcello, covering the ancient roads and the numerous paths in order to dip themselves in a charming landscape where it is possible riscoprire the scents, the sapori, the sounds of the nature. Beyond to the routes traced in the secular forest of the Stiff one, truly unusual goals like the strait can be caught up bridge suspended of Mammiano, a long footbridge that connects the two rivers of the Lima torrent, constructed in 1922 for the laborers who worked to the Metallurgical Society of Mammiano. Not to lose it is, moreover, the visit the Astronomical Observatory that in the limpid nights of summer offers the opportunity of scrutare the stellato sky. From Saint Marcello Pistoiese other evocative localities can be caught up easy. Maresca, small but attended climatic station, where every year to July the International Festival of the Folklore and "Extras of art" are kept, one manifestation of theatre and music with the road artists. Lizzano, village of ancient origins, was between the X and XIV the century one of i more important centers of the mountain. Today the place is characterized for a series of murales that they adorn the buildings of the country, realizes to you between il1985 and the 1990 from the artists of the Donatello Group, where with a made language of inks it lives tells the life to us of the mountain.