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A fantastic parish church that's worth a visit. The interior, especially, is truly beautiful.

A must-see with sweeping views of the surrounding mountains, all immersed in lush greenery.

The place is cool and quiet during the week. Canoe rentals are available for lake excursions.

Mezzana is closely adjacent to the village of Monte dei Bianchi, another hamlet of Fivizzano. At the base of the hill on which Mezzana stands, the Lucido river flows, and all around the view is dominated by the presence of the Apuan Alps, of which the peak of Mount Pizzo d'uccello is clearly visible.

The parish church of Codiponte of Saints Cornelio and Cipriano is among the most fascinating and artistically rich in the territory of the ancient Diocese of Luni. With its figurative capitals and its artistic masterpieces, it is a true paradigm of the Lunigiana Romanesque. The parish church stands on the right bank of the Aulella, near a bridge beyond which, in the distance, you can see the ruins of the 11th-century Bianchi d'Erberia castle. The church has a basilica plan with three naves with columns and round arches and perfectly preserved notched cubic capitals, which bear figures typical of the medieval image system: the tree of life, lily, six-petalled daisy, serpent with feet, two-tailed mermaid and many others. The late medieval triptych with the Virgin on the throne, the SS. Cornelius and Cyprian, the church's patron saints, and the image of the Holy Face, a famous and venerated Lucchese relic, which recalls the passage of the Via del Volto Santo in these very places.

The upper part of the town is fortified and preserves the ruins of a castle: hidden by the vegetation are the beautiful forms of a medieval palace, with a loggia at the base and a certain development in height, perhaps dating back to the 14th-15th century, which indicate a more residential than military function. Other ruins scattered in this upper part of the hill suggest the presence of a previous defensive fortification and control of the road system and which must have also included a small church. Beyond a natural valley, on the plateau that extends over the hill to the north, the remains of the ancient convent of the Franciscan nuns, already existing in the 15th century and which was suppressed in the second half of the 18th century. The ruins of the castle can be accessed from the lower village by crossing the Romanesque bridge

The village of Terenzano, which develops on a hill in the valley of the Aulella stream, is entirely made up of sandstone houses, and preserves suggestive sculpted portals, vaulted arches, an access door to the village and marble majesties.

Called the town of a hundred villages, for the numerous hamlets that compose it, it has ancient origins even if it acquired importance first with the Malaspina family in the Middle Ages and then with the Medici in the Renaissance, the latter called it the 'beautiful corner of Florence. It preserves an important historical center, protected and enclosed by the Medici walls, erected by Cosimo I in 1540, where there is a succession of noble palaces that flow into the Medici square, characterized by the elegant baroque fountain in marble and pietra serena, which overlooks the church dedicated to Saints James the Apostle and Anthony from the 14th century and enlarged in the 16th, with three naves marked by sandstone columns and with inside a beautiful baptismal font bearing the coat of arms of the Spino Fiorito of the Malaspina.