The old name, Suppetia, is traced to the Latin suppeditare, to supply: the Roman settlement at the meeting of the Tiber and the Ancione was there to send down to Rome, floating on the river, the timber of the Massa Trabaria; the basins for floating it, which Pliny the Elder names, still have their foundations at the bridges of Valsavignone and Formole. Another explanation comes from a stone unearthed in 1636, which said that Publius Sulpicius and his wife Cellina had built there a temple to the god of the Tiber and his nymphs.
Since 1984 the town has kept the national archive of diaries, which Saverio Tutino came here to found: more than ten thousand diaries, memoirs and bundles of letters, written by ordinary people. Every year the Premio Pieve is awarded, and since 2013, in the palazzo Pretorio, there is the little museum of the diary.
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📅 Every year, on 26 December
Pieve Santo Stefano celebrates Saint Stephen on 26 December, in the Collegiate church dedicated to him. The town band, today the Filarmonica Ermanno Brazzini, celebrated its three-hundredth anniversary in 2017.
📅 Every year, on 8 September, a perpetual vow after the 1631 plague
Pieve Santo Stefano celebrates the Madonna dei Lumi on 8 September. During the 1631 plague, a solemn vow was made to celebrate her nativity in perpetuity, ratified by the grand-ducal chancellor once the plague was defeated.
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Outside Pieve Santo Stefano, but an easy day trip away.
