The name comes from the Greek phylakterion, the watchtower: around 540 Belisarius had the Magra valley barred to stop the Goths before Luni, and from that Byzantine post the village was born. The tower has stayed in the coat of arms. Around the pieve of Sorano seven statue-stelae have been found, the stone figures that in the Lunigiana come millennia before any fortification.
In the church of San Giorgio a stone of 752 is set into the wall, remembering a Lombard bishop praised for having swept away the paganism of these lands: the two things stand a few hundred metres from each other, but no document connects them. In 1221 the division of the Malaspina fief made Filattiera the capital of the branch called of the Flowering Thorn, on the left bank of the Magra.
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📅 Every year, on 26 December
Filattiera celebrates Saint Stephen on 26 December. The last weekend of June, within the walls of the historic centre, comes the Festa della Fame e della Sete (Festival of Hunger and Thirst).
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