The Cathedral
Tradition, handicraft, culture, art, peace and nature: Pontremoli is a place to include in your next itinerary to Tuscany. Federick II considered this main town of the Lunigiana to be the “gate and sole key” of the passage from north to south (the climb up to the Cisa Pass starts here).
Pontremoli boasts a fine heritage of buildings, including a baroque Cathedral with a Neoclassical façade; the Church of San Francesco with a Romanesque bell-tower and, inside, a work by Agostino di Duccio (15th Century); the Oratory of the Madonna del Ponte (or, Nostra Donna) is an unusual and significant example of Rococo architecture. Just outside the built-up area is the remarkable Church of the Santissima Annunziata, whose interior contains a templet (16th Century) attributed to Sansovino.
Don’t miss: the Museum of Lunigiana Protostelae with a collection of mysterious sandstone menhirs in human form and other archaeological finds.
Medievalis
In Summer there is a Medieval Parade called Medievalis:
