Castiglione di Garfagnana

For centuries Lucca held on to this walled town as an outpost surrounded by Este territory, because it controlled the road to the San Pellegrino pass over the Apennines. Its 13th-century walls and great towers, the Torrioni, still ring the village on its spur above the Serchio valley, and two churches use wall towers as belfries. The brass band, the Filarmonica Alpina, dates from 1858.

Highlights

• The 13th-century walls with their Torrioni, and the Rocca
• San Pietro, founded in 723 by two Lombard brothers
• The belvedere over the Serchio valley
• Chestnut polenta served with boiled pork bones
• San Pellegrino in Alpe, with its ethnographic museum

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.