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Sarzana is a town and comune in the Province of La Spezia, of Liguria, Italy, 15 km east of Spezia, on the railway to Pisa, at the point where the railway to Parma diverges to the north. In 2004 it had a population of 20,180. Sarzana has one of the most important glass-bottle factories in Italy. There are also brick-works and a fuel factory. History: The position of Sarzana at the entrance to the valley of the Magra (ancient "Macra"), the boundary between Etruria and Liguria in Roman times, gave it military importance in the Middle Ages. The first mention of the city is found in 983 in a diplom of Otto I: in 1202 the episcopal see was transferred from the ancient Luni, 5 km southeast, to Sarzana. A branch of the Cadolingi di Borgonuovo family, lords of Fucecchio in Tuscany from the 10th century onwards, which had acquired the name of Bonaparte, had settled near Sarzana before 1264. In 1512 a member of the family took up his residence in Ajaccio, and hence, according to some ... Read more about Sarzana on Wikipedia

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