health-giving waters There are two spas in the province of Massa-Carrara: Equi Terme, on the Northern slopes of the Apuan Alps, and San Carlo. In the Garfagnana, easily reached from Lucca, there is the important spa of Bagni di Lucca. Equi Terme is a typical medieval village in a splendid setting dominated...

The image of the Lunigiana that comes to mind most readily is probably that of the old village nestling around its castle in a position commanding the routes along the valley bottom. For those arriving from the coast, in fact, the valley of the Magra is heralded by the villages of Vezzano Ligure on the...

The mountains on the Northern side of the Apuan Alps that ring the upper valley of the Serchio and its side valleys are an area of outstanding beauty due to the variety of nature and the great expanse of woods, the morphology of the land – where steep slopes lead up to rounded summits –...