On 2 May 1918 the airship U-5, on its way back to the air station of Pontedera after patrolling the sea between Elba and Corsica, came down at Valdiperga: all five men aboard were killed. On the spot there is still a memorial stone, and a plaque on the town hall.
For a century Castellina was a village of alabaster: the quarry opened at the beginning of the nineteenth century and the stone went to the craftsmen here and in Volterra; today there is an ecomuseum. The marquisate was created on 17 March 1628 for Lorenzo de' Medici, of a collateral branch of the grand dukes, and in the eighteenth century the family added the surname Tornaquinci to their own: they became the Medici Tornaquinci della Castellina.
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📅 Every year, on 29 August
On 29 August Castellina Marittima, a municipality of 1,985 inhabitants in the province of Pisa, celebrates its patron San Giovanni Decollato (Saint John the Beheaded).
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