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The perched village owes its name to the sparks produced by charcoal burners, a widespread activity in these areas. In ancient times this was an alpine pasture area (such as the opposite “Puntato”) until the early 1600s. The shepherds settled there definitively around 1880: first building so-called “alla buona” houses and then gradually making them larger and solid using local stone for the walls and schist for the roofs. The whole village life took place around the church of Sant’Anna (dating back to 1640) which welcomed into its arms new people captured by the convenient sale that settled up there, in a strategic position between the Garfagnana and Versilia with numerous paths that allowed achieve it. Permanent life lasted there until the 1960s thanks also to the commitment of the last parish priest (Don Cosimo, to whom a plaque on the facade of the church is dedicated) around which the remaining community was cemented, in the process of being displaced.<\/p>\n
An unfortunate episode occurred in 1977 when the whole country was devastated by episodes of paramilitary simulations. Since then, however, the heir community of Col di Favilla has become even more united, albeit displaced in different places further down the valley, and usually recompose with the heirs every year for July 26 to celebrate the day of the patron Saint Anna.<\/p>\n","modified":"2020-08-10T17:45:13","color":"","icon":"","noDetails":false,"noInteraction":false,"imageGallery":[{"src":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Col-di-Favilla-1-1024x682.jpg","id":7390,"caption":"Col di Favilla 1"}],"image":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Col-di-Favilla-2-1024x682.jpg","taxonomy":{"webmapp_category":[176]},"accessibility":{"mobility":{"check":false,"description":""},"hearing":{"check":false,"description":""},"vision":{"check":false,"description":""},"cognitive":{"check":false,"description":""},"food":{"check":false,"description":""}},"reachability":{"by_bike":{"check":false,"description":""},"on_foot":{"check":false,"description":""},"by_car":{"check":false,"description":""},"by_public_transportation":{"check":false,"description":""}},"locale":"en","source":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi\/7399","wp_edit":"http:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=7399&action=edit","translations":{"it":{"id":7387,"name":"Col di Favilla","web":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/col-di-favilla\/","source":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi\/7387","description":"
Il borgo arroccato deve il suo nome alle scintille prodotte dalle carbonaie, attivit\u00e0 assai diffusa in queste zone. Anticamente questa era un’area di alpeggio (come il dirimpettaio “Puntato”)\u00a0 fino dai primi anni del 1600. I pastori vi si stabilirono poi definitivamente intorno al 1880:\u00a0 dapprima costruendo case cosiddette “alla buona” e poi man mano rendendole pi\u00f9 ampie e solide utilizzando per i muri la pietra locale e per i tetti lo scisto. Tutta la vita paesana si svolgeva intorno alla chiesa di Sant’Anna (risalente al 1640) che accoglieva fra le sue braccia nuove genti catturate dal conveniente smercio che si stabili lass\u00f9, in posizione strategica tra la Garfagnana e la Versilia con numerosi\u00a0 sentieri che permettevano di raggiungerlo. La vita permanente vi \u00e8 resistita fino agli anni ’60 grazie anche all’impegno dell’ultimo parroco (Don Cosimo, cui \u00e8 dedicata una lapide sulla facciata della chiesa) intorno al quale si era cementata la rimanente comunit\u00e0, in via di spospolamento.<\/p>\n
Episodio spiacevole quello del 1977 quando l’intero paese fu devastato da episodi di simulazioni paramilitari. Da allora per\u00f2 la comunit\u00e0 erede di Col di Favilla si \u00e8 ancora pi\u00f9 unita, seppur dislocata in differenti luoghi pi\u00f9 a valle, e suole ricomporsi con gli eredi ogni anno per il 26 Luglio a celebrare il giorno della patrona S.Anna.<\/p>\n"}},"web":"https:\/\/selfguided-toscana.it\/poi\/col-di-favilla\/?lang=en","addr:street":"","addr:housenumber":"","addr:postcode":"","addr:city":"","contact:phone":"","contact:email":"","opening_hours":"","capacity":""},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[10.3,44.05]}}