Take a swim at Tiber River . At an uncertain date it was taken by the Romans under Domitius Calvinus. In 177 B.C., and under the Second Triumvirate, Roman colonies were established there. In the fifth century Luna was sacked by the Vandals, and in 650 by the Lombards. The city never recovered, however, and in 1058 the inhabitants emigrated to the modern Sarzana.
Ruins are still visible of an amphitheatre, a semicircular theatre, a circus, and an aquarium.
Numerous sixth century inscriptions, some of which are Christian, have been found at Luni. The sole record of its ancient importance survives in the name of Lunigiana. It is first mentioned in 963. The temporal jurisdiction of Sarzana was vested in the bishops of Luni, though it was often contested by the Malaspina marquesses. Later it passed to the Pisans and to the Genoese.