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Terme Tettuccio, Montecatini's oldest and most famous spa, rebuilt in 1925-8
Collodi w
Road map C2 .
Ferri in 1693, has a massive
campanile that was originally
built as a tower within the
city walls. It was given its
onion-dome “cap” in 1771.
There is a small collection of
religious paintings and illumi-
nated manuscripts in the
Museo Civico , and the
Museo Archeologico della
Valdinievole displays material
excavated from nearby Valdini-
evole, the pretty “Vale of Mist”.
R San Francesco
Piazza San Francesco.
Villa Garzoni
Tel 0572 42 95 90.
Villa ¢ for restoration.
Garden
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3,000.
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Piazza
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9am-5pm daily.
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Collodi (0572 42 96 60).
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Pinocchio Park
Tel 0572 42 93 42.
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There are two main sights
in this town: the Villa Garzoni
with its theatrical terraced
gardens tumbling down the
hillside and, for children, the
Pinocchio Park (see p183).
The author of The Adven-
tures of Pinocchio (1881),
Carlo Lorenzini, was born in
Florence but his uncle was
custodian of the Villa Garzoni
and Lorenzini frequently
stayed here as a child. Fond
memories led him to use
Collodi as his pen name and
in 1956 the town decided to
repay the compliment by
setting up the theme park.
The park consists of gardens
featuring mosaics and sculp-
tural tableaux based on the
adventures of the puppet,
plus a maze, playground,
exhibition centre and
children's restaurant.
8:30am-sunset daily.
& 7
partial. www . pinocchio.it
Pescia e
Road map C2.
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18,000.
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Via Fratelli Rosselli 2 (0572 49
09 19).
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Sat.
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daily.
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Duomo
Piazza del Duomo.
Pescia's wholesale flower
market is one of Italy's
biggest, and there are some
interesting sights to visit.
In the church of San
Francesco are frescoes on
The Life of St Francis (1235)
by Bonaventura Berlinghieri
(1215-74). The artist knew
St Francis (see p47) and it is
claimed that the frescoes are
an accurate portrait of the saint.
The Duomo , remodelled in
Baroque style by Antonio
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daily.
E Museo Civico
Palazzo Galeotti, Piazza Santo
Stefano 1. Tel 0572 47 79 44.
¢ for restoration.
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Museo Archeologico della
Valdinievole
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 1.
Tel 0572 47 75 33.
8:30am-
1pm Mon-Fri, 3-5:30pm Tue & Thu.
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Montecatini
Terme r
Road map C2.
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22,500.
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Viale Verdi 66 (0572 77 22 44).
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Thu.
Of all Tuscany's many spa
towns, Montecatini Terme is
the most interesting. It has
beautiful formal gardens and
the architecture of its spas is
particularly distinguished.
Terme Leopoldine (1926),
built in the style of a Classical
temple, is named after Grand
Duke Leopoldo I, who first
The Pescia river, running through a fertile, cultivated landscape
 
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