La Pieve di Loppia - 1025 - 2008
950 years of history were celebrated today at the Pieve di Loppia just outside Barga. The church there was first erected in 1025 and was one of the most important places of religious worship in the province. The celebrations will carrying on tomorrow with the arrival of the Arcivescovo di Pisa, Mons Alessandro Plotti. Today is was the turn of the choirs in the area to let their voices be heard. The first up were some old friends of barganews readers - Gruppo Vocal Stereo Tipi (article here and their site is here). They were followed by the Piccolo Coro "Chiacchiere Sonore", the Società corale "Schola Cantorum" from Fornaci di Barga, the Corale del Duomo di Barga, Corale Polifonica di Gallicano and finally the choir from the Pieve di Loppia with their conductor Valentino Moriconi playing on home ground so to speak.
LOPPIA nella Valle del Serchio. - Borgata con pieve antica che ebbe o che diede il suo nome a un distrutto castello, cui apparteneva la chiesa prepositura di S. Cristofano a Barga, dalla qual terra l'attuale borgata di Loppia è circa 2 miglia a scirocco nella Comunità Giurisdizione predetta, Diocesi di Pisa, una volta di Lucca, Compartimento pisano. È situata alla sinistra del Serchio lungo la strada rotabile che al borgo delle fornaci staccasi dalla via provinciale della Garfagnana per salire a Barga. Le memorie più antiche del castello e pieve di Loppia ce le forniscono le carte dell'Archivio Arcivescovile Lucchese; tostoché per mezzo di esse sino dal secolo IX si cominciano a conoscere i signori del castello di Loppia e del suo vasto piviere, nella nobile famiglia longobarda lucchese de'Rolandinghi, che fu consorte alla casa magnatizia da Monte Magno, da Corvara, ec.
Essa per altro, rapporto ai suoi beni di Loppia, era feudataria dei vescovi di Lucca, da tre dei quali, il vescovo Teudegrimo nel 982, quindi il Vescovo Gherardo nel 994, e finalmente nel 1277 il vescovo Paganello concederono ai cattani di Loppia a titolo di enfiteusi, ossia di feudo molti beni di pertinenza della pieve di S. Maria e S. Giovanni Battista di Loppia. - source - Dizionario Geografico Fisico della Toscana di Emanuele Repetti
Corale del Duomo Barga singing at Loppia Barga - Signore delle cime di B.De Marzi
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