To the ancient visitors coming from North, overcoming the sinuous apenninic profile, Garfagnana appeared as a green basin overhung by the splendid profile of Alpi Apuane. Garfagnana in the time has not suffered radicals transformations and its beauty has arrived intact up to us thanks also to the creation of two parks that have stimulated the development of a qualified tourism. Close to the sporting activities tied up to the mountain, a careful tourism has known how to rediscover the medieval suburbs that populate the zone. Places and people, slow rhythms of a country civilization that also today allows to rediscover typical products as farro, flour of chestnuts, mushrooms and the production of bagged and cheeses of quality, tutto frutto of an increasing attention toward the tradition and the biological crop.