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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Florence ...
and about southeast of
Livorno
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. It is named after the poet
Giosuè Carducci, who spent there some years as a child.
Castagneto Carducci borders the following municipalities:
Bibbona,
Monteverdi Marittimo
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,
San Vincenzo,
Sassetta
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,
Suvereto
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Government
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.
Toponymy
comes from . 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 who, as a child, lived there for some years (near
Bolgheri, 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 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, 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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