The Ligurians here were all deported. In the second century BC the consul Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, the man of the via Aemilia, fought the local people at length and ended by moving them en masse to the province of Benevento.
The name may come from the Latin fullare, to press, grapes or cloth, like Follonica; or from fola, a hunting reserve, and indeed this territory was a hunting ground of some of the Este. Follo appears in a document of 1197. Earlier still, in 238 BC, the Ligurian Briniati had opposed the Roman advance; the Apuani submitted only in 14 BC. There are 6,337 residents.
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Next up: Saint Martin of Tours, patron of a town with feasts year-round, from fritters to codfish, Wednesday 11 November
Nearest airport: Pisa Galilei, 68 km away
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📅 Every year, on 11 November
Follo celebrates Saint Martin of Tours on 11 November, with the church dedicated to him; in the hamlet of Carnea, overlooked by Monte Santa Croce, the codfish fritter feast is instead held on the second Sunday of September.
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Outside Follo, but an easy day trip away.
