| Vagli Below | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Tuscany | |
| Altitude | 575 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 41.22 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 995 (2010 estimate) | |
| Prefix tel | 39 0583 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 55030 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
| Patron | St. Regulus | |
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Vagli Below is a city of Tuscany.
To know
Geographical notes
The village is located on the Vagli lake, in Garfagnana.
How to orient yourself
Vagli Sotto: full screen map.How to get
By plane
By car
- Exit Aulla of the A15 motorway then the SP 445 towards Piazza al Serchio is Camporgiano.
On the train
- Poggio-Careggine-Vagli station a Camporgiano, on the Lucca-Aulla line.
How to get around
What see
Factories of Careggine
- 1 Factories of Careggine, Fraction of Vagli Sotto (Submerged country). The village, which can only be visited today when the lake is drained, was founded in the 13th century by a colony of blacksmiths from Brescia; after the Estense conquest, starting from 1755, it was destined to become one of the largest suppliers of iron to the state. The decline of the Via Vandelli, which connected Modena to Mass, coincided with the decline of the village, whose residents had to return to devote themselves to the ancient trades of peasants and shepherds to cope with hunger and famine. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the town's economy recovered, following the exploitation of marble in the vicinity of Vagli, so much so that, between 1906 and 1907, a small hydroelectric power station was built on the Edron to serve the marble basins. In 1941, under the Fascist regime, it was decided to build a hydroelectric basin blocking the course of the Edron stream in the municipality of Vagli Sotto. Between 1947 and 1953 a dam was built, 92 m high and the medieval village, which consisted of 31 houses and had just 146 inhabitants, was gradually submerged. The residents were transferred to the new homes in Vagli Sotto, built to faithfully reproduce the urban plan of the evacuated medieval village. During the maintenance works of the dam, the lake is emptied making the ancient medieval village re-emerge, with its stone houses, the cemetery, the three-arched bridge, the Romanesque church of San Teodoro and the ruined bell tower. This event occurred in 1958, 1974, 1983 and 1994.
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Morandi bridge
- 2 Morandi bridge. It is a 122 m long pedestrian walkway designed in 1953 by the engineer Riccardo Morandi. It crosses the artificial basin into which the Lussia stream and the Edron converge, tributaries of the Serchio river, directly connecting the small municipality of Vagli di Sotto with the territory of the opposite bank. Its works were completed in 1955. The formal simplicity generated by the lightness of the structure visually adapts to the natural elements of the surrounding environment, making the walkway not only a functional engineering achievement, but above all an architectural work that fits harmoniously into the landscape .
- Tibetan bridge. With its 135 m it is one of the largest in Europe of its kind.
Events and parties
What to do
Shopping
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 Good Evening, Town Hall Square, Vagli Sotto, ☎ 39 0583 664332, @[email protected].
- 2 Moonlight, Via Carraia 11, Careggine, ☎ 39 0583 661020.
Where stay
Average prices
- 1 Il Lago hotel restaurant, Via Europa 1, Vagli Sotto, ☎ 39 0583 664052.
- Garfagnana Mulin del Rancone farmhouse, Location Rancone, Camporgiano, ☎ 39 0583 618490, @[email protected].
Safety
How to keep in touch
Post office
- 1 Italian post, Via Europa - Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, ☎ 39 0583 664056.
Around
Other projects
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