a short HISTORICAL NOTE
The area of ​​the Antignano Marinara historically belongs to the territory defined by the name Garden. 500 In this part of the coast of Livorno was defined as it is rich in fresh water and fertile and arable. A pleasant place where, according to the same Boccaccio, who set the tenth story of the second day of the Decameron, already in the fifteenth century, the rich landowners and men of rank, as the protagonist Messer Riccardo jealous husband of Monna Tolomea, had the their villas and gardens. Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo, purchased later, the estate of Antignano, and after having started to build a fortified place where to live the farm workers protected by a small garrison, donated it in 1568 to his son Peter. Castle Antignano, became one of the key points of the coastal defense south of Livorno, and the military road that connected the towers of Ardenza and the Mug, and besides, ran along the coast a few meters from the sea, crossing also Garden area, from Punta del hut to Malpasso, Botro on the Blood. This ford on the stony beach was notoriously difficult to cross, and often, in the technical reports of the contractors of the road, was listed as damaged and in need of restoration. D ‘other hand, the place had a certain importance because it was there that they met, in the night, the two patrols of Cavalry Guard Coste, one coming from Livorno and one from Rosignano, which after deliveries were exchanged behind front, back along the way to the respective bases. Towards the end of 700, significantly reduced the danger of the Barbary Corsairs, the most important aim became the maintenance of the cordon, which aims to prevent the spread of epidemic diseases through illegal landings. For this was periodically activated, a place called an armed guard in wood. It ‘likely that the name Punta del Casotto was born in connection with this wooden shack, precarious shelter as necessary. Around 1840 the defensive system was finally dismantled and the military road, consisting of two side seams in blocks of local stone and a ballast internal coarse breccia, wide enough for two horses to pass side by side, fell slowly in ‘oblivion. The construction of the carriageway, built from 1842-43 and subsequent modifications and extensions of the route, obliterated by long stretches of the old road, relegated to the level of the path, known by the few local and painters from Livorno who identified with the group of macchiaioli, as factors. Numerous works of marine subject clearly painted in these places and along this road testify to the ‘love of the artists for a scene full of charm and suggestions. Today, after many years, finally this part of the coast of Livorno has once again become a true Garden, renewing the ‘old tradition.