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Inhabitants in 1991: 3.228
 The
territory of Casciana Teme extends for 36,42 square kilometres on the
internal hills of the Val d’Era. It was constituted in autonomous
municipality in 1927 with the districts of Bagni di Casciana, Collemontanino,
Parlascio and Sant’Erno, detached from the municipality of Lari.
The new united administration was initially given the name of Bagni di
Csciana.
The history of the capital, which in Medieval documentation appears
often with the name of Bagno ad Acqua, was effectively interwoven
with that of its thermal rising, already in use in Roman times
and which in a description of the XV century appears channelled in an
uncovered bath, twice the size of the municipal baths, with two entrances
and large flat stones on the bottom. Castle and Seat of a parish church
dedicated to Santa Maria ad Aquas, it was from the XI century in the
possession of the Count Cadolingi family; it then passed under the
power of the Bishops of Pisa and successively under the Pisa republic.
Substantially immune to the conflicts and their relative devastations
which characterised the history of most of the Toscani municipalities
in the XIII–XV centuries, it was incorporated into the Fiorentino
dominion in 1406. After the middle of the 1800s the urban centre received
the present day systemisation through the interventions of Architect Giuseppe
Poggi, who seems to have also been one of those who realised the thermal
establishment.
Historical info reproduced upon authorization of Regione Toscana - Dipartimento della Presidenza E Affari Legislativi e Giuridici
Translated by Ann Mountford |
