The Lunigiana is characterized from a rich natural landscape that manifest in its montuoso aspect and above all to collinare itself, thanks to the tosco-emiliano Appennino and the Alps Apuane that enclose it in a washbowl from the shape lengthened and crossed from the Lean river and its numerous torrents. E' sure the ideal place for a healthy vacation to pass to contact of the nature visiting the thermal zones, the natural coves, parks, lagos and goes to you prati; but it is also possible to make a jump in the past, from the preistoria to the Middle Ages until the modern age, thanks to the castles, the villages walls to you, to the gentilizi palaces, the churches, the museums and the several cultural manifestations that are carried out above all in the summery period. Particularly evocative they are the castles, whose formation in Lunigiana in the course of the Middle Ages was characterized from a process articulated from the chronological point of view for succeeding of events he is politicians who trained to you because of the strategic role of the Lunigiana like earth of border and traffics obligates to you along the way Francigena. The absence in the area of a strong able center to extend the own hegemony concurred, from X the century, the affirmation of local powers determining the birth of numerous castles, thanks to the role exercised from the noble derived feudali families from the branch of the Orbetenghi, which Extensive and the Malaspina. It seems that in Lunigiana there were very 160 castles; today of many it is not remained trace, of others are remained ruderi mysterious, but those that remain satisfy the requirements of those who very well wish to dip themselves in the medioevale age of the noble ones and checkerses. The signs of the ancient rural civilization are, instead, still obvious in the lunigianese landscape: the pastures in mountain connect to you from muleteer scandite from the presence of maestà and sources, the castagneti cultivate to you on terraces, the villages and the villages of alpeggio that they arrive very beyond the thousand meters of height.