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The municipal territory of Monsummano, in the Valdinievole, extends for 32,77 square
kilometres in the plains and hills of Monte Albano. The ancient settlement, the castle was
erected on the summit of the hill where its suggestive ruins remain today, was until the
beginning of the XII century feudal to the Maona Counts and owned by the Lucca Episcopate.
In the second half of the 1500s the life of the castle was transferred to the town below the
slopes but the true development of the village, inhabited by shepherds and farm workers on
the edge of the marshes, came about in the 1600s around the church erected to celebrate the
phenomena destined to influence the economic activity of the location: the emergence of the
thermal waters which became well know and well frequented in the 1800s.
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