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Inhabitants in 1991: 1.816
 The
municipal territory of Castellina Marittima extends fro 45,72 square kilometres
on the hills of the high valley of the river Fine, which overlooks the
coastal plain of Cecina. Its present day extension has origins in the
territory of the Medieval community and the Grand Duchy feudal.
The discovery of archaeological finds makes it seem that the site
where Castellina rose had been inhabited in the Etruscan era. Fortified
village, it was noted in a chronicle before the year 1163, when
two Consuls from the Pisa municipal nominated their representatives there
(as happened in other castles in the coastal Maremma). In 1267 it
was sold to the city of Pisa by Ildebrandino di Sovana and, in
the nine successive years, saw the progressive penetration of the Gherardesca
family, an exponent of whom, the Count Ugo di Giovanni, rebelling in 1348
against the dominion of the Tirrenica city, gave Castellina a short lived
independence. In 1406 the community was subjugated to Firenze together
with all the Pisano territory. During the Mediceo Grand Duchy, in 1628,
Castellina was transformed into feudal and conceded as Marquisate to a
branch of the same Medici.
Historical info reproduced upon authorization of Regione Toscana - Dipartimento della Presidenza E Affari Legislativi e Giuridici
Translated by Ann Mountford |
