Pistoia's a city in the Tuscany region of Italy, the capital of a province of the same name, located about 30 km west and north of Florence. History Pistoria (in Latin other possible spellings are Pistorium or Pistoriae) was centre of Gallic, Ligurian and Etruscan settlements before becoming a Roman colony in the 6th century BC, along the important road Via Cassia: in 62 BC the demagogue Catiline and his fellow conspirators were slain nearby. From the 5th century the city was a bishopric, and… (More on Pistoia)