Borgo a Mozzano is in the province of Pisa along the famous Gothic Line that separated the Allies' army from the Nazi-Fascist army in 1944. It has a population of about 7,000 inhabitants and it has preserved the Franciscan Convent of 1525, the Town Hall and the church of St. Peter, built in the XII century in its territory.

There has been information on Borgo a Mozzano, a small centre in the Val di Serchia, since 991 at the acme of the Lombard period. Then, the town seemed to be a dominion of the Soffredinghi, the rulers of Anchiano. Yet, without any doubt, the origin of the settlement is to be traced back to the Liguri Apuanni, who were later substituted by the Etruscans and the Romans who drove them back towards the Apuan Alps.
In the Early Middle Ages, in he period characterized by the Government of Matilde di Canossa, Borgo a Mozzano became a city-state based on trade unions. The numerous artisans who had developed their activities in the territory and, in particular, the manufacture of iron and wood, were the members of these associations. Obviously, a well-consolidated agricultural activity, which was the pivot of Borgo a Mozzano's economy until the XX century, immediately was added to handicraft.
Since 1227, the Republic of Lucca established its hegemony on the area and included Borgo in the vicariate of Coreglia, giving it definitively to the noble family of the Antelminelli. During all the XIV century, Lucca governed it directly only in the period going from 1369 to 1438, when all the vicariate (exception made for its chief town) was handed down to the Florentine nobleman Francesco Sforza. He almost immediately left it after only three years. Since then, the fates of Lucca and Borgo a Mozzano were indissolubly intertwined until they entered the dominions of Florence and then the Kingdom of Italy.
The fortune of the town was its closeness to the Gothic Line, the battlefront between the Nazi-Fascists and the Allies during World War II. According to historians, the intense espionage with which the allied army received detailed information on the shifting of Germans along the boundary line between the territories still occupied and the ones freed by the English-Americans, was due to a citizen of Borgo, the geometer Silvano Minucci. The citizens of Borgo have kept and restructured the ancient structures used by the armies along the Gothic Line and they can be visited today.