Valdinievole

Valdinievole is a pleasant and full of open spaces. The villages of this zone are: Buggiano, Chiesina Uzzanese, Lamporecchio, Larciano, Massa a Cozzile, Monsummano Terme, Montecatini Terme, Pescia, Pieve a Nievole, Ponte Buggianese and Uzzano. In the whole zone you can find numerous alternative itineraries that lead to castlse and medioeval boroughs that you can find here and there in Valdinievole.

Montecatini Terme is undoubtly the most important turistic centre. The locality has, besides the efficient and rich thermal equipments, an elegant and refined aspect: numerous buildings in liberty style, wide parks and boulevards. The events are numerous so as the meeting and sporting structure like the golf course and hippodrome, besides the good geographical location as to the most important art centres of Tuscany, that made Montecatini a very interesting place, not only for its spa.

Not so far are Monsummano Terme with its enourmous natural caves an d Pescia with its flower market, known all over the world. Monsummano Terme offers to its guest a wide and autonom possibility to choose art and cultural itineraries, naturalistic escursions, beatycentres and sport activities centre. The village is dominated by Monsummano Alto hill that erges lonely at the occidental edge of Montalbano chain, in dominant position on Valdinievole.

The ancient part of the village is Lamporecchio with its medioeval borough, the towers, the beutiful churches, simple and linear, at the feet of Montalbano, while in the plain zone is the modern village, developed especially at the beginning of this century.