The town of Giuncugnano, set at 880 m. a.s.l. of altitude, is the highest in the province of Lucca and it has a population of about 600 inhabitants. Besides having landscapes and wonderful excursion paths, its territory houses the churches of Sant'Andrea Apostolo and Sant'Antonio Abate and the oratory of the Madonna di Sommocampo.

Giuncugnano rises far from the main roads that were the making of the other towns in the Garfagnana and in Tuscany, in general. Since the beginning, its nucleus has been surrounded by a forest area constituted of chestnut trees, beeches and oaks. If at the time it represented a vitally important resource, mainly because of its abundance of timber and game, it is also true that it excluded the town from the important commercial routes crossing the valley of Lucca.
The first document about Giuncugnano dates to the VIII century a.D. and it informs us about the existence of the towns of Capoli and Magliano. What is certain is that in that period Giuncugnano was a territory divided into seven small built-up areas, which were very different one from the other. Among the ancient population, the Lombards were those who left the most visible traces of their passage here.
The ancient dominion of the two seigniories of this lineage, who came to Italy in the wake of the Barbarian invasions, stopped around the year 1000, when the Republic of Lucca took possession of the area. In those years, the town's unfavourable position turned out to be a blessing and Giuncugnano avoided the violent battles with which the inhabitants of Lucca, the Florentines and the Estensi fought for the territory of the Val di Serchio and of the Garfagnana.
The long period of violence and wars that ended around the half of the XV century ended with the passage of Giuncugnano to the Dukedom of Modena. Together with this small state in the Emilia region, the town went through the modern age and until the Napoleonic invasion when the French, who founded the Kingdom of Etruria in Tuscany, occupied the area. The Congress of Vienna gave Giuncugnano back to the Estensi and in 1859 the town entered the Kingdom of Italy together with the other towns in the territory of Lucca.