This room is so called because it was the place where once the civil rules were decided and then declared in the public square.
It was a very safe and peaceful place similar to the one where the statutes were stored. The statutes were like sacred texts, symbols of the local freedom.
Vezzano’s statutes were – together with those of the nearby Sarzana – the most organized of the Lunigiana and could well regulate the administrative local life until the Napoleonic age.
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