Going up from Livorno to the Pisan Hills, we find the Sanctuary of Madonna dei Monti in Sant’Ermo which overlooks a beautiful scenery of fields cultivated with wheat. The current building dates back to the mid-nineteenth century, when it was rebuilt by the local peasant populations after the terrible earthquake of August 14, 1846.
In 1929 the families of the town wanted to build an avenue that made reaching the Church less tiring and in 1945 the avenue was enlarged and surrounded on two sides by tall trees, elms and cypresses, each of which planted and named after a family of the country.
From the square in front of the sanctuary, named since 2002 “of regional cultural interest”, the view runs from the Pisan mountains, to the Gulf of La Spezia and to the Tyrrhenian coast.
[from www.terredipisa.it]
