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A medieval walled town in the Serchio Valley, and what happened when a Tuscan diaspora came home

We were trying to get to Garfagnana. That is worth saying at the start, because the best afternoons in Italy are the ones you did not plan. It was July, the coast was unlivable, we pointed the car at the Serchio Valley with a vague idea of chestnut forests and cool air, and somewhere on the road up we took a turn we should not have taken and ended up at…