Rosignano Marittimo

Rosignano Marittimo
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
province	Livorno (LI)
Coordinates	43 ° 25 ' N , 10 ° 28' E Coordinates: 43 ° 24 '32 " N , 10 ° 28' 26" E
height	147 m slm
surface	120.3 km²
Residents	30,672 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	255 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	57016
prefix	0586
ISTAT number	049017
Popular name	Rosignanesi
Patron saint	San Nicola , Santa Teresa , San Leopoldo
Website	Rosignano Marittimo
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Rosignano Marittimo is an Italian municipality in the province of Livorno with 30,672 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Tuscany region .

geography

Rosignano Marittimo is located about 27 km south of the city of Livorno on the coast of the Ligurian Sea and borders Cecina in the south . The municipality consists of the districts Rosignano Marittimo , Rosignano Solvay , Castiglioncello , Vada , Castelnuovo della Misericordia , Gabbro and Nibbiaia . Castiglioncello and Vada in particular are popular holiday resorts.

Districts

View from Castiglioncello to Rosignano Solvay

Castiglioncello

Giovanni Fattori , tinkerer in Castiglioncello

Beach at Vada

San Leopoldo Church, Vada

Gabbro

Rosignano Marittimo

The administrative seat of the municipality is the medieval town of Rosignano Marittimo . It is about 5 km from the sea on a hill. The name Rosignano goes back to a Roman family in the area ( gens Rasinia ), while the addition Marittimo was added in 1862 to distinguish the place from Rosignano Monferrato . The settlement is documented for the first time in Lombard times (762), it came to the margraviate of Tuscany in the 10th century and then under the rule of Pisas . From 1406 the place belonged to the dominion of Florence .

Attractions

Castello di Rosignano - The castle, which was strategically important as early as the Middle Ages, was rebuilt in 1562 under Cosimo I de 'Medici after being destroyed in wars between Pisa and Florence in order to ward off raids by the corsairs . Two round towers of this fortification have been preserved. Other buildings belonging to the castle are:
Parish church of SS. Ilario e Giovanni Battista , originally Romanesque, rebuilt in 1704
Palazzo Bombardieri , seat of the Archaeological Museum (evidence of the Villanova culture , Etruscan-Roman and medieval finds)
Museo Pietro Gori - Museum with memories of the anarchist Pietro Gori (1865–1911)

Rosignano Solvay

The district of Rosignano Solvay , located on the coast, got its name from a soda factory built by the Solvay company in 1914 . The location was chosen because the raw materials required for production, such as lime and salt, were abundant. A garden city based on the English model was laid out around the factory for the workers . Despite the industrial settlements, Rosignano Solvay is a popular seaside resort.

Castiglioncello

Castiglioncello is an elegant resort with many hotels, bathing establishments and a beautiful pine forest. It is located on a small promontory at the foothills of the Colli Livornesi range of hills . Castiglioncello goes back to an Etruscan foundation in the area of influence of Volterra . The place was a small fishing village for centuries. In the mid-19th century, the Italian art critic Diego Martelli chose Castiglioncello as a summer residence because of its beauty and mild climate. With him, an artist scene established itself here around the painters of the Macchiaioli (School of Castiglioncello), who often chose the location as a motif. In the 1960s, Castiglioncello was mainly visited by film people from Rome such as Marcello Mastroianni and Alberto Sordi . The film in love with sharp curves with Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant was shot in Castiglioncello in 1962. Today the seaside resort is less sophisticated and focuses more on family vacations. However, it has remained a cultural center and offers many cultural events in summer (theater, dance festival in Castello Pasquini ).

Attractions

Medici Tower, a fortification against pirate attacks (16th century)
Castello Pasquini - Castle-like villa from the 19th century, today an event and congress center and seat of a language school
Chiesa di S. Andrea - Church from 1621

Vada

Vada is a well-known seaside resort with several large campsites. It has a 5 km long sandy beach that borders directly on a pine forest. Like Cecina, Vada is on a fertile plain that is used intensively for agriculture.

Vada was the port of the city of Volterra ( Vada Volaterrana ) in ancient times . In the Middle Ages spread in the swamps of the Maremma , the malaria and the place remained until the 19th century almost uninhabited. Like Cecina, Vada was founded at the instigation of Grand Duke Leopold II to give the drained and newly divided area a center.

Attractions

Archaeological excavations at San Gaetano , near the ancient port of Vada Volaterrana (thermal baths and necropolis from the 3rd - 2nd centuries BC)
Torre di Vada , like Forte di Bibbona, originally a Pisan fortress and lighthouse (13th century)
Chiesa San Leopoldo - parish church in classical style, consecrated to St. Leopold .
"Le spiaggie bianche" - This is the name of the beaches in Vada and is also called "The Caribbean of Italy". They are artificially (not natural) faded from the illegal disposal of the toxic chemical mercury from a nearby soda factory for decades . Disposal was only stopped a few years ago by the municipality.

Castelnuovo della Misericordia

Castelnuovo della Misericordia is a small village with a medieval town center (mentioned for the first time in 857). It is located on a hill from which the road from Pisa to Maremma was monitored in the Middle Ages. The surname Misericordia ( Mercy ) was given to the place in 1338, when it was determined by a will to use the annual income from the fiefs for the poor in Pisa and the ransom of slaves. The place was destroyed by an earthquake in 1846 and rebuilt. Castelnuovo has a castle from the 13th century and the parish church of Santo Stefano (built between 1638 and 1642).

Gabbro

Gabbro , which has been documented in writing since 1312, is located on the site of an Etruscan-Roman settlement. It is about 200 m above sea level on the slopes of the Colli Livornesi . The magma rock gabbro is named after the place. The baroque church of S. Michele Arcangelo dates from the 18th century.

Nibbiaia

The little one, at 275 m above sea level. M. located place Nibbiaia was at the beginning of the 19th Jhs. founded. The parish church of San Giuseppe was built in 1835.

Regular events

Festival di Castiglioncello , summer festival with national and international dance productions
Festa del Pesce (Fish Festival) in Caletta, Castiglioncello (2nd Sunday in June)
Vadasullaia , village festival in Vada (last Sunday in June)
La Cacciuccata in Rosignano Solvay, festival around the Cacciucco (July 18th - 19th)
Village festival in Vada (Monday after Ferragosto (July 15th))
City festival in Rosignano Marittimo (September 10th)
Village festival in Gabbro (September 30th)
City festival in Rosignano Solvay (October 1st - 4th)
Village festival in Nebbiaia (2nd Sunday in October)
Village festival in Castelnuovo della Misericordia (3rd Sunday in October)