Collodi (Italy)

Villa Garzoni at Collodi is a villa just over the border of the province of Lucca, (Tuscany, Italy). The garden was built shortly before 1652 by the Garzoni family, relating to the site of the old castle, which stands slightly apart, closely associated with the village that nestles round it, on the edge of a clifflike slope, which had been chosen in earlier times for its defensible approach. The garden of Villa Garzoni, whose layout "makes the fullest use of a precipitous hillside site in a manner that is usually associated with Rome", features giochi d'aqua, or a water garden, constructed at the foot of a series of balustraded terraces and a suite of grand symmetrical staircases connecting the lower water gardens at the base of the hill, with the house, the cascade, the teatro di verdura and other garden features above. At each terrace level, side walk past fantastically clipped yew blend imperceptibly with the wooded slope. Its cascade, which the exigencies of the site prevented from alignment with the main axis, has been called one of two "culminating High Baroque statements" of the trends toward drama and spectacle. The garden designers of Potsdam, Fontainebleau, and Versailles had influences from these gardens and has earned its fame across the European continent.The gardens were originally laid out by 1652, and were completed during the course of the century, at the end of which they were already famous. When Filippo Juvarra found himself at Lucca in 1714, he made a rapid bravura pen-and-ink sketch for a scenographic enlargement of the Palazzina dell'Orologio (the Clock Casino) that remained on paper as one of his many off-the-cuff pensieri. The water garden was added in 1786 by Ottavio Diodati, a local architect. The villa, which was thoroughly rebuilt in the eighteenth century, belonged to the Garzoni family until the beginning of the twentieth century.

San Gennaro is 12th-century, Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church in the neighborhood of San Gennaro in the town limits of Capannori, province of Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy.

The Diocese of Pescia (Latin: Dioecesis Pisciensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Tuscany, about 41 miles (66 km) west of Florence. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Pisa.On 14 October 2023, with the appointment of Fausto Tardelli as bishop, the Diocese of Pescia was united with the Diocese of Pistoia in the person of a single bishop.

Santi Stefano e Niccolao or Stefano e Nicolò is a Roman Catholic church located in Pescia, region of Tuscany, Italy.

The church of the Madonna di Piè di Piazza (Madonna at the foot of the public square), originally called the Oratory of San Pietro e Paolo is a 15th-century, Renaissance-style, Roman Catholic prayer hall located at the south end of the Piazza Grande in the town of Pescia, region of Tuscany, Italy.

Santissima Annunziata is a Roman Catholic church located in Pescia, region of Tuscany, Italy.

The Oratory of Sant'Antonio Abate is a 14th-century, Roman Catholic prayer hall located on Via di San Francesco, adjacent to a convent of the same name and now Hospital of Santi Cosma e Damiano, in the town of Pescia, region of Tuscany, Italy.

San Francesco is a Romanesque and Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church located at Piazza San Francesco in Pescia, region of Tuscany, Italy.

Pescia Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Pescia; Cattedrale di Maria Santissima Assunta e di San Giovanni Battista) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Pescia, Tuscany, Italy, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and to Saint John the Baptist.It is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Pescia.

The Villa Torrigiani is located in the hamlet of Camigliano, a town in Capannori (Lucca). It is a historical villa, dating from the second half of the sixteenth century.

The Paper Museum in Pescia (Tuscany, Italy) (Italian: Museo della Carta di Pescia) is the only museum in Tuscany that records, documents, protects, and passes down to the public the art of handmade paper. Its purpose is to preserve the ancient art of processing and manufacturing handmade paper and to raise awareness of the importance and evolution of paper production.Founded in 1996 by public and private bodies and companies making part of the Pescia Onlus Paper Museum Association, it has its headquarters in the eighteenth-century Cartiera Le Carte, purchased in 2003 by such Association. In 2021, the Museum was recognized as a Museum of Regional Relevance by the Tuscany Region and was included in the National Museum Network. The museum preserves about 7,000 pieces including paper filigree shapes, filigree waxes, punches, metal sheets, and stamps, and 600 linear meters of documents relating to the Ancient Magnani paper mills of Pescia which make up the Magnani Historical Archive. It is part of La Via della Carta in Tuscany, a project aimed at establishing a wide system of paper industrial archeology spread in the provinces of Lucca and Pistoia, carried out in collaboration with the Lucca paper district.

Montecarlo is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Lucca in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of Florence and about 12 kilometres (7 mi) east of Lucca.