Santo Stefano di Magra

Santo Stefano di Magra is an Italian city of9852 inhabitants inside the province of La Spezia in Liguria. It is the 5th municipality inside the province via quantity of inhabitants. The first ancient facts date back to the tenth century specially to 981 wherein the village of Santo Stefano turned into remembered as an crucial marketplace place in the imperial diploma of Otoe of Saxony , alongside the pilgrim path to Rome the Via Francigena.

Territorially subjected to the bishops counts of Luni , the village become a resting place on the Via Francigena of important non secular government, headed or returning from the Capitoline town, together with the Sigeric Archbishop of Canterbury round 990 who wrote a diary of his journey. The Icelandic abbot Nikolas of Munkapvera in approximately 1151 who described his journey from Iceland to Rome, or the abbot of Guny among 1145 and 1153. The same church, named after the saint Stephen protomartyr , became noted in 1154 in a textual content by means of Pope Anastasio. The importance of its marketplace and related sports are also mentioned in a diploma from 1185.