Hi, I'm Attilio the bat, I've been living with my family for a very long time in the old quarries of Poggio alla Guardia here in Pieve a Nievole in the province of Pistoia.
My ghetto.
Watch out for the bat symbol and get ready with your cell phone to scan the QR code and listen to the associated audio track.
Ah, call me Vesper, my stage name!

Here we are in via del Vergaiolo, on the so-called Margine del Minnetti, on the eastern outskirts of the town.
This little house which houses the image of the Madonna was known by all as Margine del Vergaiolo, but it was not always like this;

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Hi, I'm Attilio the bat, I've been living with my family for a very long time in the old quarries of Poggio alla Guardia here in Pieve a Nievole in the province of Pistoia.
My ghetto.
Watch out for the bat symbol and get ready with your cell phone to scan the QR Code and listen to the associated audio track.
Ah, call me Vesper, my stage name!

Hi, I'm Attilio, a bat specimen, I have lived with my family for a very long time in the old quarries of Poggio alla Guardia here in Pieve a Nievole in the province of Pistoia.
My ghetto.
Watch out for the bat symbol and get ready with your cell phone to scan the QR Code and listen to the associated audio track.
Ah, call me Vesper, my stage name!

We are at the last stage of our path and we can stop at the Adriano hut to admire the grandeur of the Spino di Giuda and listen to my last stories.
I start from the century-old tree, bristling with thorns on the trunk and branches, with small leaves similar to those of the acacia and very fragrant flowers between May and June; it is said that the bees that dance around here are elegant and numerous.

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Hi, I'm Attilio, a bat specimen, I have lived with my family for a very long time in the old quarries of Poggio alla Guardia here in Pieve a Nievole in the province of Pistoia.
My ghetto.
Watch out for the bat symbol and get ready with your cell phone to scan the QR Code and listen to the associated audio track.
Ah, call me Vesper, my stage name!

We are on a very peripheral and dusty road, but from the seventeenth century onwards it was a road that allowed us to connect an inland area of Tuscany to the sea.
As?!
Here there was a port that connected the Valdinievole area with the Canale dei Navicelli, dug at the behest of Cosimo I Medici at the end of the 16th century between Livorno and Pisa to avoid the strong currents at the mouth of the Arno River, at lower costs than those by land.

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Hi, I'm Attilio, a bat specimen, I have lived with my family for a very long time in the old quarries of Poggio alla Guardia here in Pieve a Nievole in the province of Pistoia.
My ghetto.
Watch out for the bat symbol and get ready with your cell phone to scan the QR Code and listen to the associated audio track.
Ah, call me Vesper, my stage name!

Here we are in the countryside, on the banks of the largest inland marshland in Italy: the Fucecchio marsh, for us bats, a table always laden with insects!
Here we are in reclaimed land, that is, the area between the marshy part and the reclaimed part, drained and made fertile thanks to canalization works, especially from 1700 onwards, thanks to the hydraulic interventions desired by the Grand Duke of Tuscany Pietro Leopoldo.

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Hi, I'm Attilio, a bat specimen, I have lived with my family for a very long time in the old quarries of Poggio alla Guardia here in Pieve a Nievole in the province of Pistoia.
My ghetto.
Watch out for the bat symbol and get ready with your cell phone to scan the QR Code and listen to the associated audio track.
Ah, call me Vesper, my stage name!

If you look around, you can see the villages of Bagni di Montecatini, Castello di Montecatini and Pieve a Nievole which, in the nineteenth century, were three hamlets of the same municipality, Montecatini; each village had a bell tower that wanted to ring the notes of autonomy and independence.

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Hi, I'm Attilio, a bat specimen, I have lived with my family for a very long time in the old quarries of Poggio alla Guardia here in Pieve a Nievole in the province of Pistoia.
My ghetto.
Watch out for the bat symbol and get ready with your cell phone to scan the QR Code and listen to the associated audio track.
Ah, call me Vesper, my stage name!

Here are the Pietre Cavate locations: don't look around because you won't see vertical rock faces, but you have to be a very attentive detective to spot depressions in the stone in the pavement you're walking on.
Those are the imprints of two knees: nothing to do with Transformers or a sculpture, but with the energy of a superheroine named Santa Barbara.

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Hi, I'm Attilio, a bat specimen, I have lived with my family for a very long time in the old quarries of Poggio alla Guardia here in Pieve a Nievole in the province of Pistoia.
My ghetto.
Watch out for the bat symbol and get ready with your cell phone to scan the QR code and listen to the associated audio track.
Ah, call me Vesper, my stage name!

Here we are in front of a fountain that was used to supply drinking water but also as a watering place for animals and horses; then, over time, it was enlarged and frescoed with the image of a Madonna; it has always been known as the fountain of Fra' Carlo, to whom the street that runs along it is also dedicated.
see in front of you and it will be the path of your walk.

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Hi, I'm Attilio, a bat specimen, I have lived with my family for a very long time in the old quarries of Poggio alla Guardia here in Pieve a Nievole in the province of Pistoia.
My ghetto.
Watch out for the bat symbol and get ready with your cell phone to scan the QR code and listen to the associated audio track.
Ah, call me Vesper, my stage name!

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Hi, I'm Attilio, a bat specimen, I have lived with my family for a very long time in the old quarries of Poggio alla Guardia here in Pieve a Nievole in the province of Pistoia.
My ghetto.
Watch out for the bat symbol and get ready with your cell phone to scan the QR code and listen to the associated audio track.
Ah, call me Vesper, my stage name!

Welcome to our home, hospitality is shown to you, between rocky and crooked walls, our house has no doors, but we are united and in harmony and we are a rarity for biology; we are in Poggio alla Guardia, a relief that the Lombards used in the sixth century as a lookout area:

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