Patron saint festival In 26 days
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Mulazzo celebrates its patron Saint Martin; the town hosts the Museo Archivio dei Malaspina.
Mulazzo was a sovereign state until 1797, when Napoleon abolished the imperial fiefs. It had been autonomous since 1550, and until 1776 it was governed jointly by two branches of the same family, the Malaspina del Castello and the Malaspina del Palazzo, taking a year each in turn.
The Malaspina had the fief in 1164; the Ghibelline branch, that «of the Dry Thorn», gave shelter to Dante in exile, and his presence in the Lunigiana is proved by the acts of the peace of Castelnuovo, signed on the sixth of October 1306. In the village there is a tower they call Dante's and a museum about his stay. In the countryside, instead, the statue-stelae of the Lunigiana have come to light, carved from the Copper Age onwards.
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chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo 📍 Luni · 400 m Rothari levelled the Byzantine chapel; in the eleventh century Nicola rebuilt on its highest point. santuario di Nostra Signora del Mirteto 📍 Luni · 1.1 km In 1537 a painting wept tears of blood: from that grew the sanctuary above Ortonovo. chiesa di San Lorenzo 📍 Luni · 1.3 km Built between 1621 and 1645 on the ruins of a castle, a perpetual abbey since 1714. chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km Three naves on eight columns of Carrara marble, under a portal carved in 1671. Palazzo Amati Ingolotti Cornelio 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km A marchese rebuilt it for his duchess wife; its sixteenth-century cellars now pour the local wine. Luna 📍 Luni · 2.9 km Rome's marble port: forum, theatre and an amphitheatre for 7,000, at the mouth of the Magra.