Some of those who passed through here wrote it down. Archbishop Sigeric of Canterbury kept a diary of his journey to Rome around 990; the Icelandic abbot Nikulas of Munkaþverá told his own, all the way from Iceland, around 1151. Santo Stefano was a stop on the via Francigena.
The reason was the market: in Otto II's diploma of 981 the town appears as mercatum in plebe Sancti Stephani, and in 1185 Frederick Barbarossa granted it market, ban, justice and fishing rights. A documented community, though, exists only from 12 May 1202, when the people, the bishop and the Malaspina swore peace. There are 8,790 residents.
pieve di San Michele Arcangelo · pieve di Santo Stefano · santuario di Nostra Signora delle Grazie and 2 more
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📅 Every year, on 3 August
On 3 August Santo Stefano di Magra celebrates Saint Stephen the Protomartyr; the old pieve dedicated to him is mentioned in a document by Pope Anastasius IV from 1154.
pieve di San Michele Arcangelo Consecrated in 1528, remade in the eighteenth century: the hill church of Ponzano Superiore. 
pieve di Santo Stefano Three churches stacked on one spot, capped by Genoese Baroque finished in 1776. 
santuario di Nostra Signora delle Grazie The 1647 apparition to a village boy, and the church that grew from it. 
villa Pratola A marble double-ramp staircase spills from the Remedi family Baroque facade toward the Cisa road. 
Palazzo Remedi The Remedi marquises opened a belvedere square in front of their own house, over the Magra valley. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Santo Stefano di Magra, but an easy day trip away.
