{"id":15151,"date":"2025-05-20T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T08:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/poi\/eglio-en\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T10:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T08:46:47","slug":"eglio-en","status":"publish","type":"poi","link":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/en\/poi\/eglio-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Eglio"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_small with_img with_overlay wm_header_section\">\n\t\t<div class=\"l-section-img loaded wm-header-image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/ecmedia.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com\/EcMedia\/76466.jpeg);background-repeat: no-repeat;\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"l-section-h i-cf wm_header_wrapper\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\t<div class=\"wm_body_section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"align_left wm_header_title\">\n\t\t\t\tEglio\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wm_activities wm_container>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wm_activity\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wm_activity_icon\"><svg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 1024 1024' width='32' height='32'><circle fill=\"darkorange\"  cx='512' cy='512' r='512'\/><g fill=\"white\" transform='scale(0.8 0.8) translate(100, 100)'><path d='M512 0l-443.733 238.933v34.133h887.467v-34.133l-443.733-238.933zM136.533 341.333v341.333l-68.267 109.227v95.573h887.467v-95.573l-68.267-109.227v-341.333h-750.933zM273.067 409.6h68.267v375.467h-68.267v-375.467zM477.867 409.6h68.267v375.467h-68.267v-375.467zM682.667 409.6h68.267v375.467h-68.267v-375.467z'\/><\/g><\/svg><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wm_activity_name\">History and culture<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wm_container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wm_left_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<iframe class=\"wm_iframe_map\" src=\"https:\/\/geohub.webmapp.it\/poi\/simple\/43190?locale=en\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wm_body_description_content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>It is an ancient country, mentioned in a document from 884, built on the ridge of a mountain, which has, on the opposite side, a horrid overhang of 470 meters and a horizontal development of over 700.<br \/>\nIt is known that, around the year 1000, the main nucleus, that is the Sassi-sopra castle, to which the houses of serfs had perched, belonged to the family of the Porcaresi nobles. It dominated the whole territory from Pania down to Serchio and also included the villages of Verni, Valico and Trassilico.<br \/>\nThe Porcaresi dispersed, perhaps more due to the changed economic conditions of the feudal lords in general than to actual war events, the \u201cMunicipality of Sassi\u201d (such is indicated in the documents) became part (with Gallicano, Molazzana, Montaltissimo and Calomini ) of the territories of the \u201cGran Matelda\u201d (Matilde of Canossa). The document, drawn up and sealed at \u201cVilla Foxana\u201d (today: Fosciana) bears the date of 10 July 1105. As soon as the new land came into legal possession, the \u201cGran Contessa\u201d repaired and enlarged the old church of \u201cSan Frigdiano in Saxo \u201c.<br \/>\nIn 1385 the town was occupied by the troops of Bernab\u00f2 Visconti and the sons of Castruccio Antelminelli; \u201cstrict security measures were taken and \u2013 as the historian Sercambi writes -\u201d the destruction of the Rocca was ordered, a constant nest of turbulent and restless inhabitants \u201c.<br \/>\nIn 1393, however, it had already been rebuilt and the bishop of Lucca passed it as a fief to the nobles of Dalli.<br \/>\nOn July 24, 1451, with nine other countries, Sassi gave himself to the Marquis Borso d\u2019Este, who formed the vicar of the New Lands.<br \/>\nOn July 28, 1524 Sassi had the honor of hosting Ludovico Ariosto, who in his capacity as Governor of the Garfagnana had risen from Castelnuovo on the back of a mule, accompanied by a \u201cdriver, a secretary, two crossbowmen, to visit that fortress\u201d , which \u2013 he wrote \u2013 \u201cin a much stronger and horrid place than the Verrucole.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Poet would have liked it to be restored to good condition, appointed a castellan and would have warned a number of gunmen there. But the Duke did not want to know about the expenses in Garfagnana, let alone in Sassi, so he gave it, with the annexed territories, to a Sassese, certainly Jacopo da Mariano, \u201cto have her father defended him with rare fearlessness, against the Lucchesi\u201d and so faithfully \u201cthat he bit\u201d.<br \/>\nAn important clause in the transfer document is this: \u201con condition that, in need, they can close them in there to take refuge with their substances, including beasts\u201d. And this suggests that the various housings were still in good condition.<br \/>\nBut \u201ctheir neighbors\u201d, on the other hand, preferred to build their homes a little lower, where the soil was more fertile, the water more abundant.<br \/>\nAnd so Sassi was born, the one \u201cbelow\u201d, which is the current one.<br \/>\nIt is a belief that the church of San Frediano in Sassi had, in the past, ornaments, paintings and furnishings of considerable value.<br \/>\nThe silk makers of Lucca (the Bonvisi, the Talenti, the Cenami) who in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries supplied their drapes to the cathedrals and nobles of half of Europe, also woven cloaks, stoles and planets for various churches in the Val di Serchio and, of course, also for this, linked to the name of the \u201cGrand Countess\u201d and dedicated to a bishop from Lucca.<br \/>\nSome, therefore, of these furnishings have remained (an embossed silver processional cross from the 1400s with numerous sacred figures; a planet (perhaps from the same century, woven in silk, filigreed in gold), but others have been irreparably lost.<br \/>\nIn the second half of the fifteenth century a certain Baptist Bartolomei (\u201coperaius ecclesiae Sancti Frigdiani\u201d) was a worker who, as said in a contract of the notary Ser Lucenzio Best, on December 28, 1814, commissioned Matteo Civitali to sculpt a tabernacle in Carrara marble, \u201cpulcrum et compositum et ornatum\u201d (beautiful, well made and decorated), to be placed (clearly said) in the church \u201cde Sassi in Gharfagniana\u201d. Agreed compensation: eight golden ducats.<br \/>\nToday that tabernacle is no longer there, in any of the churches in the town, neither in that of Sassi-sopra, nor in that of S.Rocco, nor in that which overlooks the ancient farmhouses of Granciglia.<br \/>\nIn the year 1827 the new parish church was opened for worship and it is also dedicated to St. Frediano. The ornaments, the altars, the paintings of the old one were transported there, but the tabernacle of the great Civitali, either was lost in the removal, or had already disappeared since that time.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wm_right_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wm_body_gallery\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wm_info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<script>\n\t\tdocument.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {\n\t\t\tvar swiper = new Swiper('.swiper-container', {\n\t\t\t\tslidesPerView: 1,\n\t\t\t\tspaceBetween: 10,\n\t\t\t\tfreeMode: true,\n\t\t\t\tloop: true,\n\t\t\t\tpagination: {\n\t\t\t\t\tel: '.swiper-pagination',\n\t\t\t\t\tclickable: true,\n\t\t\t\t},\n\t\t\t\tnavigation: {\n\t\t\t\t\tnextEl: '.swiper-button-next',\n\t\t\t\t\tprevEl: '.swiper-button-prev',\n\t\t\t\t},\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t});\n\t<\/script>\n\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-15151","poi","type-poi","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"geohub_poi_id":"43190"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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