Castagneto Carducci () is a (municipality) in the
Province of Livorno
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in the
Italian
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region of
Tuscany
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, located about southwest of
Florence
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and about southeast of
Livorno. It is named after the poet
Giosuè Carducci
Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (; 27 July 1835 – 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was very noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906, h ...
, who spent there some years as a child.
Castagneto Carducci borders the following municipalities:
Bibbona,
Monteverdi Marittimo,
San Vincenzo,
Sassetta
''For the village near Livorno, see Sassetta, Tuscany''
Stefano di Giovanni di Consolo, known as il Sassetta (ca.1392–1450 or 1451) was an Tuscan painter of the Renaissance, and a significant figure of the Sienese School.Judy Metro, ''Italia ...
,
Suvereto.
Toponymy
is , from ('
chestnut tree'). In 1900, the specification ('on the sea') was added, which in 1907 was changed to the present one, in honour of the famous poet
Giosuè Carducci
Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (; 27 July 1835 – 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was very noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906, h ...
who, as a child, lived there for some years (near
Bolgheri
Bolgheri () is a central Italian village and hamlet (''frazione'') of Castagneto Carducci, a municipality (''comune'') in the province of Livorno, Tuscany. in 2011 it had a population of 131.
History
First mentioned in 1075, in a papal bull by ...
, in the north of the village).
Economy
Castagneto Carducci's economy is linked to agriculture and seaside and wine and food tourism, which, especially in summer, benefits from the area's numerous accommodation facilities, which have been awarded the prestigious ''"Bandiera Blue"'' cognition. Another important resource is the production of fine wines, which have made the wine cellars of Bolgheri and the surrounding area famous throughout the world. The production of extra virgin olive oil is also important.
Culture
Giosuè Carducci Literary Park and Museum-Archive
The Museum-Archive, currently home to the Literary Park, preserves material on the life and works of the poet
Giosuè Carducci
Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (; 27 July 1835 – 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was very noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906, h ...
acquired during the Carducci celebrations in 1982 and 1985. The Literary Park is characterised by various interesting itineraries that retrace places and landscapes of the Castagneto area present in Carducci's works and life.
Along the beach is the former Villa Margherita ''a Marina'' or ''sulla spiaggia'', built by Walfredo, Count
della Gherardesca
The House della Gherardesca was an old noble family of the Republic of Pisa, dating back as early as the 11th century of Longobard origin.
They were an important one of the most prominent initially in Pisa, then of Volterra and eventually and of ...
, and Count of the Donoratico and Castagneto (1865 – 1932) for his wife, Donna Margherita dei
Principi Emanuele Ruspoli. Of note is also the former family's adjacent chapel or small church, built 1922-1923 to designs of the architect Luigi Caldini.
Capella della Gherardesca sulla spiaggia di Donoratico
L'Architettura Italiana, Anno XVIII, 1 September, 1923, pages 104-106.
References
External links
Official website
Cities and towns in Tuscany
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