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The village, perched over the Carpinella Valley, is surrounded by rolling, wooded valleys which have been populated since ancient times thanks to their fertile pastures, from which the original name of the town - Pratalonga - was derived. On 11 September, 1334, Giovanni di Lorenzo of Picardie (France), who was passing through Pietralunga on a pilgrimage to Lucca to view the Holy Face, was falsly accused of having killed a man and condemned to death. The pilgrim invoked the Holy Face of Lucca on the gallows and the blade falling on his neck miraculously turned, sparing his life. Each year in August this event is reenacted during the Palio della Mannaja.
Source: “La via di Francesco” – Edizioni San Paolo S.r.l.
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