map of northern Italy in 1796 with the Duchy of Modena
The Via Vandelli comes at the behest of the Duke Francesco III d ' Este and connects the city originally Mass and Modena.
The Duchy of Modena had the need to secure access to the sea within its borders (corresponding roughly to the present province of Modena, Reggio Emilia, the Garfagnana and the coast of Massa and Carrara). For this reason, the geographer and mathematician Domenico Vandelli was asked to draw the path, which runs in a rough environment through the Apennines and then through the Alps, on the slopes of Monte Tambura. The additional constraint was that the route should not cross the Papal States, or the Duchy of Lucca, or the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
It took nearly fifteen years of hard work, between 1738 and 1751, to complete the work: he had in fact come to have a road that climbed along the steep sides of mountains up to 1634 meters pitch Tambura. The route, which remains inaccessible in its path because of too many constraints on a territorial and often blocked by snow in winter, it was seldom used. The robbers were a threat to travelers who takes it and quickly suffered a sharp decline.
Today a massive restoration work done by the Municipality of Massa and the Natural Park of the Apuan Alps has returned to its ancient splendor part of the track, namely that portion which runs between the step and Resceto Tambura.
taken from wikipedia.org
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