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Pescia(pron. /'peʃʃa/) este o comună italiană care este cunoăstită pentru piaţa floarilor şi aventurele de Pinocchio.

(Carlo Collodi).Este situaţa în o zonă centrală între Lucca şi Florenţia,şi aproape de Pisa. Este o comună de Pistoia ,cu o suprafaţă de 79 km². Oraşele este situaţa supra ţărmele de omonimului fluviului Pescia.

Oraşele are doi diferiţi centri: the first one for lay and commercial activities of the left bank of the river and the second one for religious activities on the right bank. In the first one there is the castle and the square and in the second one there is the cathedral.

The city has also little villages on the Pesciatin mounts. Jean Charles Sismondi called Pesciatin mounts “Pesciatin Switzerland” because these mounts seemed similar to his Swiss mounts. All these villages are similar: they have (or had) walls, a little church and a tower, which has always become the church bell tower. The names of these villages are: Medicina, Fibbialla, Aramo, San Quirico, Castelvecchio, Stiappa, Pontito, Sorana, Vellano and Pietrabuona. Other villages of the comune are Collodi, Veneri, Alberghi and Chiodo.

The most important buildings of the city are Palace Palagio, Palace Della Barba, the Dome, the Communal Palace and the City Library. Another important building is the Old Flower Market (1951) for its modern architecture.

Economic activities in and around the city are: flower growing (carnations) and paper production. Pescia is famous all over the world for its flower growing and sale (it is called “The city of flowers”). It is enough to remember the sale relations, which Pescia has with Belgium. Paper production is a very old activity in Pesciatin zone, and nowadays many paper factories produce paper of good quality and sell it to all Italy. In Pietrabuona there is the Museum of Paper.

Pescia is an important school centre in its zone. In the city there are three professional high schools: economical, agrarian and graphic-touristic high school, and four cultural high schools: classical, scientific, linguistic and psico-pedagogic high school.

[edit] History of the city

Centre of Pescia as seen from surrounding hillsAccording to some archaeological excavations, archaelogs think, that Lombards here built the first settlement on the river banks. The name of the city comes from a Lombard word, which means “river”.

Lucca occupied and destroyed Pescia during the 13th century, but Pesciatins quickly rebuilt their city. During the entire Middle Ages Florence and Lucca contended for the city, because the free commune of Pescia was located on the border between the two republics. After Pisa tried uselessly to conquest the city, Florence occupied it. Pescia joined the fights between Guelphs and Ghibellines.

The economy of the city was founded on the mulberry cultivation and on the silkworm breeding, about which a legend said that it was imported in Europe for the first time by a Pesciatin monk.

At the end of 17th century the Grand-duke of Tuscany declared Pescia “City of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. The passage of Napoleon highly damaged the economy of the city, because he substituted silk with sugar beet.

Bombardaments during World War 2 highly damaged Pescia, but the city was quickly rebuilt, and then Pesciatins built the Old Flower Market, and the world flower sale began.

[edit] Communal administration

Mayor: Antonio Abenante, since June 2004.

[edit] Words

Inhabitants: Pesciatins

Adjective of the city: Pesciatin

[edit] Twin cities

Nerja, Spain

Oullins, France

[edit] External links

Comune di Pescia (Official page)