Valeriano Lunense
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| Coordinates: 44°8′57″N 9°51′24″E / 44.14917°N 9.85667°ECoordinates: 44°8′57″N 9°51′24″E / 44.14917°N 9.85667°E | |
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 Italy
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| Region | Liguria |
| Province | La Spezia |
| Comune | Vezzano Ligure |
| Elevation | 271 m (889 ft) |
| Population (31-12-2010) | |
| • Total | 500 |
| Demonym(s) | Valeranesi |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Postal code | 19020 |
| Dialing code | 0187 |
Valeriano Lunense is a village (frazione) of about 500 inhabitants in the comune of Vezzano Ligure in the province of La Spezia, Italy (Valeràn in the local language)..
The town is a medieval village, overlooking the Gulf of the Poets and the Plain of Slim, and is visible from the castles of the Lunigiana.
The planning of the village, at least in the most important elements, concerns the patterns found in Trebiano and especially Castelnuovo Magra, which predominate in sets of houses and streets with a straight line along the ridge of hills, from which stand the volume of the church and bell tower.
At the top of the village stand the ruins of an ancient castle, near rounded knolls, that recall the castles of the Ligurians, a people of shepherds and farmers jealous of their independence.
Parts of the castle are much older than the medieval period. According to historian Livy, 40,000 inhabitants of the Ligurian Apuan, and other 7,000 people in the Val di Magra and Vara, the Sannio, were the victims of the first deportation of history, by the consuls Cornelius Cethegus and Mario Bebio.
After the deportation, high-wealth families in Rome established their houses and properties along the coast of Luni, on Cordonata Caprione, and in the hills by Arcola Vezzano and Valerian, as recalled by Persio in his Satire.
The town's name derives from fundus Valerii or Fundum Valerianum, from one of these families who had possession of the hill for nearly a thousand years.
There are no documents in order to date the Romanization of Valerian. However, the Tabula Alimentaria, as emperor Trajan to Velleia, found two centuries ago and kept in the Museum National Parma, among many Velleia funds to contribute to the maintenance of poor children, many bearing the name of Valerian and their owners such as Publius Valerius Ligurino.
A document from the June 10, 1033, the time of Conrad the Salic Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, states that the family of the Marquis Adalberto Olbertenghi, race Lombard, makes donation to the monastery founded in Castiglione a portion of its assets and the "tenth" of its property located in the County of Valerian Luni.
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