Lunigiana is a region that embraces mountains, hills and sea, crossed by major and small rivers. The territory touches Liguria and Tuscany, and some more remote localities are in the Emilia region.

While the Stele Statues found in many ancient sites of Lunigiana are the evidence of the primitive yet evolved origins of the whole area, Middle Age and Renaissance villages, castles, abbeys are the witnesses of the manifold troubled story of Lunigiana over the centuries. The Malaspina Marquis Family ruled here with its feudal power and magnificent fortresses, battling alternatively against Florence, Genoa, Lucca for the control over the primary communication routes from Rome to France that crosses Lunigiana, the Via Francigena.
The region can nowadays be divided into Upper and lower Lunigiana, the latter being roughly correspondent to the Val di Magra, the Valley crossed by the Magra river and with a strategic mouth to the sea in the area of La Spezia.