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Burlamacca Canal of Viareggio borns in the Municipality of Massarosa in Montramito
and reaches the sea after 9,6 km
The Canal takes its name by a Family From Lucca named Burlamacchi perhaps
it crossed the lands of this family
From the Fosse papiriane a system of canals built by the Romansover time one of these
became the Berlumacca Canale of Viareggio
The Canal represents for the Republic of Lucca the future outlet to the seaand the commercial port
which became important over time
The area was subjected to land reclamation from1488 but only with the engineer Bernardino Zerdini
in 1741 it was finally put in order and definitively under the fascist regime
Today we see the canazilation system designed between 1932 to 1938
This network of canals not only served to reclaim the area but were used for the transport of good
among which the Olive Oil