# Stazzema

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**Stazzema** is a *[comune](/source/Comune)* (municipality) in the [Province of Lucca](/source/Province_of_Lucca) in the [Italian](/source/Italy) region [Tuscany](/source/Tuscany), located about 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of [Florence](/source/Florence) and about 25 km (16 mi) northwest of [Lucca](/source/Lucca).

## History

See also: [Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre](/source/Sant'Anna_di_Stazzema_massacre)

During [World War II](/source/World_War_II), the village of [Sant'Anna di Stazzema](/source/Sant'Anna_di_Stazzema) was the site of a massacre of civil population by German [SS](/source/Waffen_SS) soldiers and the Italian [Black Brigades](/source/Black_Brigades) (12 August 1944). A total of 560 people were killed, among them 100 children, one of them only 20 days old. The city received the Gold Medal for Military Valour after the war.

## Geography

Stazzema borders the following municipalities: [Camaiore](/source/Camaiore), [Careggine](/source/Careggine), [Massa](/source/Massa,_Tuscany), [Molazzana](/source/Molazzana), [Pescaglia](/source/Pescaglia), [Pietrasanta](/source/Pietrasanta), [Seravezza](/source/Seravezza), [Vagli Sotto](/source/Vagli_Sotto), [Vergemoli](/source/Vergemoli).

There are two churches of the Assumption and churches of St Anne, St Nicholas, St Peter, St Sixtus, and the Holy Trinity in Stazzema.

### *Frazioni*

Stazzema is composed of 17 hamlets (*[frazioni](/source/Frazione)*):

Arni, Cardoso, Farnocchia, Gallena, La Culla, Levigliani, [Mulina](/source/Mulina), Palagnana, Pomezzana, [Pontestazzemese](/source/Pontestazzemese), [Pruno](/source/Pruno_(Stazzema)), [Retignano](/source/Retignano), Ruosina, [Sant'Anna](/source/Sant'Anna_di_Stazzema), Stazzema, Terrinca, and [Volegno](/source/Volegno).[2] Despite municipal name, the town hall is not located in Stazzema, but in the nearby hamlet of Pontestazzemese.[1]

## References

1. (in Italian) Municipal seat, see [town hall address on Stazzema website](http://www.comune.stazzema.lu.it/index.php?pagina=amministratori&tipo=consiglio))

1. (in Italian) [Infos about the hamlets of Stazzema (municipal website)](http://www.comune.stazzema.lu.it/installazioni/stazzema/allegati/pagine/93/3%20-%20Valutazione%20Integrata_Relazione%20di%20Sintesi.pdf)

## External links

- (in Italian) [Official website](http://www.comune.stazzema.lu.it/)
- (in Italian) [Sant'Anna di Stazzema unofficial website](http://www.vittimeinnocenti.altervista.org/)

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