Cecina (Tuscany)

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Cecina
coat of arms
Cecina (Italy)
Cecina
Country Italy
region Tuscany
province Livorno  (LI)
Coordinates 43 ° 19 '  N , 10 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 18 '50 "  N , 10 ° 31' 30"  E
height 15  m slm
surface 42.5 km²
Residents 28,149 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 662 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 57023
prefix 0586
ISTAT number 049007
Popular name Cecinesi
Patron saint San Giuseppe (March 19)
Website Cecina
Center of Cecina
Center of Cecina

Cecina (emphasized on the "e") is an Italian municipality in the province of Livorno in the Tuscany region with 28,149 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). The city, founded in the 19th century, is a trading center and has been rebuilt in a relatively modern way after being destroyed in the Second World War . The district of Cecina Mare is a vacation spot.

geography

Cecina is 40 km south of Livorno on the Tyrrhenian Sea , in the north of the Maremma plain . The river Cecina of the same name flows into the sea in the northern part of the municipality. Cecina essentially consists of two districts: the actual city of Cecina a few kilometers inland and Cecina Mare directly on the coast (also called Marina di Cecina ). Smaller districts are San Pietro in Palazzi and San Vincenzino .

The neighboring municipalities are: Bibbona , Casale Marittimo ( PI ), Castellina Marittima (PI), Guardistallo (PI), Montescudaio (PI), Riparbella (PI) and Rosignano Marittimo .

Cecina Mare

The seaside resort of Cecina Mare has a coastal promenade with a sandy beach, pubs and night life. The beach is chargeable in this section; Free beaches and campsites are located in the adjoining coastal section to the south along the pine forest. The dense forest of pine , Aleppo pines and macchia that runs parallel to the coast was originally created to protect the agricultural inland from the sea wind. It stretches for about 15 km from the north (mouth of the Cecina River) to the neighboring municipality of Bibbona and provides a pleasant cooling, especially in summer. The area, which is also home to many animal species, has been under nature protection since 1977 ( Riserva Statale Tomboli di Cecina ).

history

Excavation of a Roman villa in the Archaeological Park
Cecina Mare - pub mile at night

The area of ​​today's municipality at the mouth of the Cecina river was already settled in Etruscan times and was a traffic junction between Volterra and Populonia . In Roman times, the senator Albinus Caecina owned a villa here , which apparently was the agricultural center of this area (remains of the villa are preserved in the district of San Vincenzino). With the end of the Roman Empire and the destruction of the Roman estates, the coastline of the Maremma gradually began to become swampy and became uninhabitable in the Middle Ages (12th century) due to the spread of malaria . Only a few military posts on the coast remained, such as the Castrum of Cecina, which was first under the control of the Counts of Gherardesca and then, from 1121, the Bishops of Pisa . Dante mentions the place name Cecina in the Divine Comedy (Inferno XIII, 7).

From the 16th century, first attempts were made to dry up parts of the area and make it usable, first on the initiative of the Grand Dukes Cosimo I and Ferdinando I , then by the Margrave Carlo Ginori , who set up an agricultural estate in 1738. But only in the middle of the 19th century. the drainage measures initiated by Grand Duke Leopold II were successful. The country was quickly repopulated and upgraded with the construction of roads and railways.

The current city of Cecina was officially founded in 1852. Almost nothing is left of the buildings from that time, as the town center was badly damaged in World War II.

Culture and sights

Museums

  • Museo della Vita e del Lavoro della Maremma Settentrionale - Folklore museum on the theme of the northern Maremma
  • Museo Archeologico Etrusco-Romano - Archaeological museum in the Villa La Cinquantina from the 18th century, finds from prehistoric and Etruscan-Roman times.

Churches

Chiesa S. Giuseppe e Leopoldo
  • Chiesa Acipretale S. Giuseppe e Leopoldo - The classical style church was built in 1852 on the initiative of Leopold II.

Others

  • In the district of San Vincenzino : remains of a Roman villa (inhabited from the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD). You can visit mosaics and an underground cistern.

Regular events

  • Festa della Madonna del Mare (August 15) - Procession in Cecina Mare.
  • Targa Cecina (August, September) Folk festival, parades with floats, races.

economy

Cecina is an important transport hub and owes its economic development to this location, especially in trade (agricultural products from the surrounding communities, agricultural machinery) and services (tourism). At the beginning of the 20th century Small industry also began to develop (food, sugar; building materials such as glass, brick, marble, granite; boat building) and, from the 1960s, summer tourism.

traffic

Cecina is connected to the Aurelia variant (SS1), which leads to Livorno and Grosseto. The departures are Cecina-Nord / San Pietro in Palazzi, Cecina Centro and Cecina-Sud / La California. This road is currently being expanded into a motorway, which will improve the connection to Cecina many times over.

In the neighboring municipality of Rosignano Marittimo there is access to the A12 motorway , which forms an important traffic axis between southern Tuscany and Genoa or Florence . The SS1 later joins this road at Livorno. The SP39 (Rosignano - Vada - Cecina - Donoratico - San Vincenzo - Venturina  - Follonica) and the SP68 (Cecina - Ponteginori - Saline di Volterra - Volterra - Castel San Gimignano - Colle di Val d'Elsa) run through the urban area.

Cecina has its own train station on the main railway line Pisa – Livorno – Rome . The station is regularly served by local trains and accelerated regional trains of the Trenitalia state railway. Some intercity trains also stop in Cecina. The station is also the starting point for a non- electrified branch line towards Volterra .

There are two small airfields for general aviation at Cecina .

Town twinning

Cecina maintains city ​​partnerships with the following cities :

Sons and daughters of the church

literature

Web links

Commons : Cecina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ "Non han sì aspri sterpiné sì folti / quelle fiere selvagge che 'n odio hanno / tra Cecina e Corneto i luoghi cólti." In the prose translation by Kurt Flasch: "There was no fruit, only thorns and poison such dense and wild scrub are not even inhabited by the wild animals who hate the cultivated land between Cecina and Corneto. "