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Pieve San Lorenzo

Pieve San Lorenzo is the second most populous village in the Municipality of Minucciano, it houses the Minucciano-Pieve San Lorenzo-Casola railway station and performs a central function for the fractions of the "Lunigianese" side.

The valley floor where the town stands was certainly inhabited by the Ligurian and Apuan populations who then, in the second century after Christ, had to surrender to the Roman invaders. The central element of great architectural value is certainly the Pieve from which the town takes its name, built around the year one thousand, divided into three naves and which has late Romanesque characters with Gothic influences that have been defined as inspired by Lucca, as well as linked to the Lucca tradition it is an image of the "Holy Face", placed in the right lateral nave. The high altar is a single colossal block of sandstone and the whole construction is made up of beaten and worked blocks of this stone; on the sides it has narrow slit windows and on the facade you can admire a beautiful mullioned window; the thresholds of the central door,

Of absolute importance is the octagonal bell tower, a unicum throughout the Province of Lucca.

The hamlet of Pieve is also an agricultural center mainly oriented towards the cultivation of the olive tree and the harvesting and processing of chestnuts.