The town of Comano is in the province of Massa Carrara at 530 m. of altitude and it has a population of about 1,000 inhabitants. The castle of Groppo San Piero and the Parish of Santa Maria Assunta can be admired in the town.

The town of Comano is in the middle of a very narrow valley in a position that allowed it to be hidden and to avoid being the target of Barbarian incursions, bandits and feudatories looking for lands to conquer. What today appears as a wonderful landscape once was a place scattered with small fortresses and bastions that made this area one of the safest and the most favourite of those farmers who escaped from famine and violence.
Even though it had been inhabited since the very ancient times, the real centre of Comano appeared around the IX century. After the year 1000, it entered the dominions belonging to the Estensi, one of the Tuscan-Emilian aristocratic families who characterized the Medieval and modern history of Italy. Nevertheless, the most powerful family in the area were the Malaspina who could control Comano since the beginning of the XIII century.
The Guelfs living in this area had the castle of Groppo di San Piero (XI century) as their own stronghold and they proudly opposed the Malaspina. Thanks to the endorsement of the powerful and authoritarian Bishopric of Luni, the Guelfs organized their resistance against the rulers of the Massa, but the result of the fight between the two powers was the interference of Florence in the territory.
After a long period of battles between the Tuscan nobles for its possession, the village was comprised in the domains of the Florentine republic. Thanks to the Medicean seigniory, Comano could finally end the period of clashes and sieges, even if it lost its political autonomy. In effect, in the XVIII century, Cosimo III de' Medici decided to include Comano and many other towns within the municipal jurisdiction of the city of Pontremoli. Later, the Hapsburg-Lorraine substituted the Medici and gave life to the Tuscan Grand Duchy. Comano belonged to this state until its annexation to the Kingdom of Italy.