Villa Basilica
The municipality of Villa Basilica stands at the beginning of Pescia of the river valley at the foot of the Pizzorne. The first evidence found at the start of the eighth century. Belonging initially to small landowners, since the thirteenth century became Lucchese domain, to become one hundred years later, establishment of the Vicariate of Valeriana. The territory suffered a Florentine conquest in the first half of the fifteenth century. The territory is covered by olive groves and chestnut forests and agriculture today, although to a lesser practiced hand, can give even olives and fruit and vegetables.