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Inhabitants in 1991: 1.318
 The
municipal territory extends for 58,84 square kilometres in the low Val
di Cecina, on the extreme spur of the Pisane Hills, in an area of medium
and low hills. It was originally the land of Lords, Riparbella became
autonomous community in 1755; it suffered territorial reduction in
1892 when the district of Palazzi di Collemezzano was aggregated to the
municipality of Cecina.
Situated in a marshy and unhealthy zone formed by the river Cecina,
Riparbella passed in 1157, by successive donations by the laity and Ecclesiastics,
under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Pisa. There arose a
contestation with the municipality of Volterra, who had gained
the rights over the castle, in 1199 it was definitively assigned
to the Pisa Episcopate to whom it was reconfirmed in 1293 with
the peace of Fucecchio. In 1406 a few months before the fall of Pisa,
Riparbella became part of the dominion of the Firenze republic,
from whom it was taken for a short while by the Napoletano army of Alfonso
d’Aragona in 1447. In 1494 on the occasion of the arrival of
Carlo VIII in Italy and upon the solicitation of Pisa, it rebelled
against the Fiorentino dominion, maintaining itself autonomous until 1508
when it was again subjected to commissioners sent by Firenze. In 1635
it was raised to Marquisate by the Grand Duke Ferdinando II and conceded
in feudal to the noble Andrea Carlotti from Verona: in 1737
his successors sold it to the Fiorentino Carlo Ginori, under whom
it remained until the Leopoldine reforms which transformed it into autonomous
community.
Historical info reproduced upon authorization of Regione Toscana - Dipartimento della Presidenza E Affari Legislativi e Giuridici
Translated by Ann Mountford |
