|  Inhabitants in 1991: 30.021
The municipal territory extends for 120,82 square kilometres on a hilly
crest and on part of the underlying plain. It became autonomous municipality
in 1832 under the Grand Duke Leopoldo II di Lorena, In 1910 it was
aggregated the district of Gabbro, detached from the municipality of Collesalvetti.
According to the oldest documentation going back to the VIII century,
the church of Lucca exercised its jurisdiction over the capital,
but already in the year one thousand it traced the role of two other concurrent
forces: the family of the Counts della Gherardesca and the Archbishop
of Pisa, behind whom the municipality’s citizens reacted. Given
autonomous municipal institution in the XII century, which was expressed
in the figure of Consul, the community gradually endured the affirmation
of the Pisa republic’s domination, under which they remained
until 1406, when they became part of the Fiorentino State. Following Toscana
events it passed under the French dominion and returned to the Grand Duchy
in 1815.
 Rosignano
was aggregated to the Livorno province in 1925. During all the fascist
period and the German occupation, which given its strategic position,
made it the Seat of a Kommandantur, it developed a strong clandestine
opposition, above all in the workers zone, which was cemented in the
formation of the “III Brigata Garibaldi Val di Cecina”,
operating in the hinterland, and in the activity of the antifascist parties
of the CLN. On 8 September 1843 the partisan formation spearheaded an
attack, which failed, against the enemy posts, meeting with concrete solidarity
from the population, who came in at their side. The liberation of Rosignano,
came on 12 July 1944, the allies called it the “battle of little
Cassino” for the length and bitterness of the fighting.
Historical info reproduced upon authorization
of Regione Toscana - Dipartimento della Presidenza E Affari Legislativi
e Giuridici
Picture by Sandro Santioli
Translated by Ann Mountford
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