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Pistoia has roman origin ("Pistoria") but lived a moment of splendor under Longobardi dominion in the VIII century. Pistoia lived her apex in the '200, when the bankers lend money to French king and princeps and the city was become larger until the new circle of walls, and the common conquered to the north the steps of Appennino passage against Bologna. Inside of walls had been begun to raise the great constructions of the city, but Pistoia was found again very soon blocked from Florence on one side and Lucca on the other side. In the 1306 Pistioa had to be surrendered to the army of both cities. Until this period the decedence of political and economic was emphasized, and in the 1401 lost every autonomy and in 1530 it become part of the mediceo ducato. The XVII century and XVIII century were characterized by the poverty, and decadence although the reformer of the bishop Scipione de Ricci. After the second half of '800 the city start to expand itself beyond them walls, towards the railway station. In more recent times the development of the city has been characterized from that manufacturer, handicraft and agricultural.