Perched on a stone column, in the centre of the square of the Castle of Larciano, stands proud in all its splendor, a seated lion whose right paw rests on a shield with the Florentine lily in the centre: the Marzocco.
The lily is the key symbol of the domination of the Signoria that in Pistoia began in 1401 with the submission to Florence. Even today, in Piazza della Signoria, in front of Palazzo Vecchio, we can admire a copy of Donatello's marzocco. The peculiarity of the one in Larciano is the lack of the lion's head. Tradition says that it was stolen by the nearby rival Borgo di Cecina.
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