Serravalle Pistoiese is a ''

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'' (municipality) in the

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in the

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region

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, located about northwest of

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and about southwest of

Pistoia Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typi ...

History

The original settlement consisted of two cones, those of S. Maria and Nievole, the fortress was built by the New Lucchesi in 1302. Casttrum of talking in an old inventory of the assets of the town of

dated around 1380, this document is listed in the ''Castrum Serravallis cum walls turribus September muratis circumcirca et cum duabus januis''."http://www.guidatoscana.net/castello-serravalle-pisotiese-pistoia/119.htm"
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Main sights

Town centre of Cantagrillo, near Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy

*Church of ''San Michele Arcangelo''. It houses a 14th-century ''Miracle of St. Blaise'' and a triptych with ''Madonna Enthroned with Child and Saints'' (1438), by Bartolomeo di Andrea Bocchi. *Barbarossa (Lombard) Tower *Church of ''Santo Stefano'' *Oratory of ''San Rocco e San Sebastiano'', with fragment of 14th-century fresco decoration *Church of St. Peter, in the ''frazione'' of Casalguidi. It houses some 16th-century paintings. *'' Rocca Nuova'', or ''Rocca di Castruccio'', a medieval castle.

Twin towns

Serravalle Pistoiese is twinned with: *

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, France *

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, Austria

References

External links

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Proloco official website
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