... The formation of a Roma Colony in this area indicates that this area was quite important from the Strategic, Military and Commercial point of view: the careful roman politics foresaw the moving in of entire families in the area, mostly war veterans, who had th right of a piece of land after the twenty years conscription service; which is what happened in Luni. ...

... Lunigiana is named after the ancient Roman colony of Luni, founded by the Romans in 177 b.c. where the Magra river opens up to the sea, and it was so rich and flashing with its white marble buildings that the Normans mistook it for Rome.
Luni was the capital of Lunigiana, which is now identified with the Magra estuary, but its hystorical borders were much wider, and extended from the region of Tuscany to those of Liguria and Emilia Romagna, of which Lunigiana carries the most attractive characteristics of each of these regions, for culture, landscape, gastronomy and art. ...