Mulazzo

Dante is the presence everyone talks about in Mulazzo, once capital of the Spino Secco branch of the Malaspina, the family that hosted the exiled poet around 1306. The village stands in the mountainous Lunigiana on the right bank of the Magra, and stayed a tiny sovereign marquisate until Napoleon's abolition of imperial fiefs in 1797. The navigator Alessandro Malaspina was born here.

Highlights

• Casa di Dante in Lunigiana museum, inside the last surviving tower house
• The Torre di Dante, an old tower from the Obertenghi period
• Arturo Dazzi's monument to Dante, the sculptor's last work (1965)
• Castello di Lusuolo, the Malaspina castle in the hamlet of Lusuolo (IT)
• The Dante Lunigiana Festival

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