Sassetta | |
Official Name: | Comune di Sassetta |
Coordinates: | 43.1333°N 49°W |
Region: | Tuscany |
Province: | Livorno (LI) |
Mayor: | Luciano Cencioni |
Area Total Km2: | 26.6 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 503 |
Population As Of: | January 2017 |
Population Demonym: | Sassetani |
Elevation M: | 330 |
Saint: | St. Roch |
Day: | 16 August |
Postal Code: | 57020 |
Area Code: | 0565 |
Sassetta is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Livorno in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 90km (60miles) southwest of Florence and about 50km (30miles) southeast of Livorno.
Sassetta borders the following municipalities: Castagneto Carducci, Monteverdi Marittimo, Suvereto.
Sassetta was an important castle of the Pisan Republic, demolished in 1503 after the Florentine conquest. In 1516 the original lords of the village, the Pisans Orlandi della Sassetta were also exiled. From the 16th century the village belonged to the Ramirez de Montalvo family of Spanish origin, who arrived in Florence with the court of Eleonora da Toledo who married the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo I de' Medici.