Castelnuovo Magra

Castelnuovo Magra () is a "comune" (municipality) in the Province of La Spezia in the Italian region Liguria, located about southeast of Genoa and about east of La Spezia.
The municipality of Castelnuovo Magra contains the "frazioni" (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Colombiera, Molicciara, Palvotrisia, Molino Del Piano and Vallecchia.
Castelnuovo Magra borders the following municipalities: Fosdinovo, Ortonovo, Sarzana.
History.
Roman presence is testified by ruins of a "domus agricola" (countryside estate) from imperial times. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it was held by the bishops of Luni; the name of the borough appears for the first time in a document from 1203.
The town was visited by Dante Alighieri on 6 October 1306, to end a long series of conflicts between the bishops of Luni and the Marquis Malaspina and opened a new course in local history.
The church of Santa Maria Maddalena in the town contains a Pieter Brueghel the Younger copy of "The Crucifixion", believed to be a variation of an original by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The artwork was believed stolen in a raid on 13 March 2019, but it was revealed that Italian police, tipped off about the possibility of the planned theft, had replaced the painting with a copy in a sting operation.