The photograph of the Magra river, whose waters flow under the old bridge ( of Va 'dark ) that, among Groppodalosio and Casalini, allowed one of the many who traveled route via Francigena to cross the river that lies a few kilometers upstream, is significant for introducing a land whose history can not not be understood if read with attention to the road that crosses it. Valdantena Today is close to the route of the A 15 Cisa (which also affects countries in very close, essentially contiguous - Montelungo Gravagna, Cavezzana of Antena), in the past and Valdantena Pracchiola were crossed by at least two main roads that, going from Lunigiana - and, therefore, from Tuscany and from the port of Luni - were projected toward the Po Valley or the Cisa pass through (the way of Monte Bardone ) or through one of Cirone (the Valley of Parma). Important routes through which it is moved not only the history of ordinary people (small businesses, cultural ties, but also epidemics and destruction), but the big story, that of the armies, one way or another, crossed the Apennines with their Following the death, famine, large and small tragedies for those who remained alive, they were, after the storm, to have to start all over again.
last of these terrible experiences, the final phase of World War II, when German forces in the foothills of opposeronproprio Cisa, from Pontremoli to Fornovo, the last futile resistance to the advancing allied to Massa. The last bombing occurred on the territory of Valdantena the night between 26 and 27 April 1945. And the next day - say those who have lived and remember the experience of war - the road Cisa offered the tragic spectacle of the carnage of what was left of a routed army.
