Tresana is a town of the Lunigiana in the province of Massa Carrara at 112 m. a.s.l. With a population of little more than 2,000 inhabitants, it offers its visitors the remains of the castle of Morello Malaspina and of Magia Fieschi and many other architectures of the time that are in the surroundings.

The celebration of San Quirico is particular and suggestive and it takes place both in the chief town and in the hamlet of Barbarasco contemporarily on every 14 July. The legend tells that flies devoured the saint. According to tradition, the day San Quirico is celebrated not even a fly enters the church of Tresana.
This town probably has Lombard origins. In 1164 the emperor Frederick Barbarossa ceded the town to the Malaspina, a powerful aristocratic family that exercised its hegemony over the whole Lunigiana. The town was given to one branch of the family, the Giovangallo, until the first half of the XIV century. In 1565, Massimiliano II Tresana officially invested the town and formalized its status as one of the Malaspina's feuds.
In the Middle Ages, the territory was not very appealing. There was a continuous agricultural activity favoured by the hills near the Magra river but it is excluded from the most important commercial routes that cross the valley. Consequently, the local rulers subjected the countryside to a heavy tax burden. Therefore, Florence and Genoa benefited from the population's discontent to overthrow the power of the Malaspina.
The first excuse to confiscate Federico Guglielmo his properties was that he had minted false money. This nobleman could take his properties back after some years, but in 1651, when his last heir died, a rebellion of the population gave the town to Florence. Thus, the Florentine noble Bartolomeo Corsini bought the territory of Tresana and his dynasty ruled upright under the Grand Duchy aegis until the arrival of the Napoleonic troops between the XVIII and the XIX centuries.
Once the French epic deedsof the Kingdom of Etruria ended, Tuscany was dismembered by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Part of it became the Lorraine Grand Duchy again, while the other parts were included in the dukedoms of Parma and Modena. Tresana was destined to be integrated in the dukedom of Modena governed by the Estensi. Nevertheless, the Risorgimento was beginning and the town entered the Kingdom of Italy in 1859. Its progressive agricultural decadence caused Tresana's depopulation in the XX century.