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Inhabitants in 1991: 2.405
 The
municipal territory of Marliana extends for 42,99 square kilometres in
hills and medium mountains in the high Valdinievole. Fortified castle
and Captain’s Seat, at the end of the 1500s it became part of
the Podesta office of Larciano and Serravale, and was finally capital
of the community with the Leopoldina reforms.
Surrounded by feudal possessions of the Guidi Counts (Momigno and Casore
del Monte), the Counts of Capraia (Serra) and the Lords of Maona, the
castle of Marliana was recorded for the first time in a document from
1128, with which the San Mato Monastery (dependent to the Sant’Antimo
Abbey near Montalcino) ceded to the Bishop of Lucca all the assets it
had there (1177). Destroyed by the Montecatinesi and by the Lords
of Maona during the war between Pistoia and Lucca (1177) it was reconstructed
at the beginning of the XIII century; in 1314 in the struggles between
the Pistoiesi families of Panciatichi and Cancellieri, it was conquered
by the Panciatichi allied to Lucca and thence aggregated to the dominion
of Castruccio Castracani, until at the death of this Lord from Lucca it
was manned by Castlllians named by Firenze. Together with Pistoia, to
whom Firenze had returned the custody of the fort in 1353 to unburden
itself of the expense necessary for its upkeep, it was then annexed
in 1401 to the Fiorentino State.
Historical info reproduced upon authorization of Regione Toscana - Dipartimento della Presidenza E Affari Legislativi e Giuridici
Translated by Ann Mountford |
