THE HISTORY
Already the Man of Neanderthal had appreciated the valve of Camaiore: they testify it its vestigia recovered in several coves of the mounts that they encircle goes it them and that this our ancestors I conquer to expenses of the animals that lived to them. After it, the Homo sapiens sapiens inherited the territory, where he constructed more than a shelter in he goes them of the two torrents that furrow and formed goes it them. The arrival of Liguri-Apuani marks the start of the construction of takeovers fortifies them, of which they remain little, but meaningful, traces. To this point the road is opened to the communications between various populations - moreover assessed already with the Sapiens that had contacts with others inhabitants of the meridione, with which it carried out exchanges of products in native place absent, like obsidian -: in various shape and with various scopes, Etruschi and Romani arrived. First they exchanged with the local populations their advanced products and, perhaps, they built up small takeovers. The Roman conquered, to expenses of Liguri-Apuani, the territory and of it they made before they colony, then territory of the empire.
Romana are the road that, going back the Montemagno in order to advance themselves and to cover all the Valfreddana, combines Camaiore to Lucca leaving from the important roman artery that it furrowed all the sea shoreline, the route Emilia Scauri, that it will become important feature of the Route Francigena. The Roman studs the slopes of the summits of small farms, that they will be the first nucleus of the villages puts into effect them. The roman implants cultivations to you that still today characterize it: olive trees mainly, lives and then grain and other cereals. These operations consolidated the takeovers and the populations, giving a human appearance to the landscape of goes them of Camaiore. Forfeiture of the roman Empire and the arrival of the barbaric populations, particularly “longobardi”, carries also this territory, together to the Versilia, that age that we call Middle Ages. Fortifications and families that meet between of they for the hegemony characterize these years of instability, vat to the n of the descent of the Montemagnesi whom they will have, for a sure period, the lordship on all the Versilia. The fights for the hegemony are not more appanage of the local families, than they do not resist to the collision of the getlteman and the more important cities. Pisa and Lucca contendono the territory of Camaiore and its castles. In the fights between the two cities, with adding Florence in, scompariranno Montecastrese, Peralla, Gombitelli, Montebello, Pedona; other villages fortify to you are saved, Monteggiori for first; those destroyed come close reconstructed to the origin place and, in kind, they maintain the name. II to contraltare to the political power with its castles, rocche and fortifications and, above all, with its wars, it is the religious power that constructs its n with Abbeys, Convents and Parishes. Of this reticulum some remain remarkable ruins which, defying time and inclemency, make still beautiful extension of himself: the Parish of Camaiore, that it is the more long-lasting example, the Abbey of Camaiore, destroyed from an equal reconstructed fire and, the Bell tower of Nocchi, and still the churches of Saint Lorenzo to Orbicciano, the Oratory of Saint Jacopo to Lucese, Saint Biagio to Lombrici, the Convent of the Franciscan Friars that will give the name, Friars, to a suburb of Camaiore, a lot in order to list what it seems to us more meaningful. Then, in the first half of XIII the century, pacified the Versilia from the wars between lords can be founded the Cities of Camaiore and sell it to the centre of goes discounted them by now. From this moment, practically always in the political orbit of Lucca, Camaiore extends its political n on all the common of they goes, becoming the city more important, after the capital, of the Republic of Lucca. The political vicissitudes, but also those religious ones, go of equal step with those of the fine dominant, practically, to the days ours. The city and the villages grows of religious and civil buildings, following the distances of the cities and the from Tuscany villages in one meaningful solution without discontinuity or differences. Therefore like the political economy, culture and events they will follow in a generalized manner what it happens to Lucca, in Tuscany and Italy.