n 1826 the inhabitants of Sasso Pisano (called Sasserini), there were 1089 units, the economy was mainly agricultural but also the craftsmen were numerous: at least 4 blacksmiths, 4 carpenters and 1 mechanic and a tailor who met the needs of the inhabitants of Sasso Pisano.The Families were numerous: even 9 or 10 children, 4 children were in the norm. This is because in a predominantly agricultural country the arms were important.

he sport practiced in the past by the boys was the ball: the ball was nothing but a handful of rags held together by a wire. In 1838 the bold Sasso was born, which still today engages in matches with teams from surrounding countries. Another game played in the past in Sasso Pisano was that of the tumbles: a circle of iron driven by a rod with a bow called Mandino at the bottom, the best were already able to make wooden carts with wooden wheels. Often between the band of the squires and the band of the landers (the two main bands of Sasso Pisano) clashed with fists or stones, fortunately the wounded were not the order of the day. Instead, the adults went out in the afternoon and in the evening to play cards and drink alcohol in the tavern. The peasants, on the other hand, spent their evenings “waking up”, that is, they spent their time telling each other stories by candlelight or by doing accordion-like dance parties.

t the end of the Second World War the arrival of the Americans had brought to Sasso Pisano new products such as: candy with the hole, the cocacola, new dances not to mention motorcycles and radios. Sunday was considered a very important day so the best dress was worn, the newest. The group of boys and the group of girls, both well dressed, took the occasion of Sunday mass to look at each other and exchange a smile or a wink.

great positive change in the life of the population came with the election in 1954 of President Fascetti della Larderello (ie the current Enel). In the three years of his presidency he built an entire village for the factory workers: “The boraciferous village”. The village consisted of many terraced houses with gardens and trees, an asylum, a chapel, the church of the lagoni (designed by michelucci who was the best architect of the time). A leisure club, a bowling alley, an indoor cinema were built and all these facilities were heated free of geothermal steam. Of equal importance were the many assumptions made by Larderello at that time.

he Italsider of piombino in recent years expanded its facilities and a large part of the population, not assumed by Larderello, then remained peasant emigrated to Piombino and Venturina in search of a well-paid job, vacation and pension guaranteed: all that not he would arrive while remaining a peasant. The Italsider workers created a new life and their children never returned to Sasso Pisano.

f great artistic and structural importance the thermal plant, in Sasso Pisano there was in fact a spa built by the Etruscans. The Etruscan thermal baths of Sasso are the only surviving Etruscan thermal baths in good condition up to the present day. Today this discovery has been included in a project for the creation of an archaeological park open to visitors that thanks to geothermal energy, ie the presence of hot rocks at low depths containing large pockets of steam and sulphurous water, promotes cultural tourism. This surreal environment, where the steam escapes from the ground at a high temperature has given rise to various legends including that of Monpelier.

ere the legend goes back to the 1300s after having healed the sick of the plague, with the simple sign of the cross. San Rocco Pellegrino of Monpelier contracted the disease in Piacenza while he was returning to France, not wanting to die without the blessing of the Holy Father, if he was on his way to Rome, but exhausted stopped in a wild area covered with forests and pregnant with nauseating vapors. He found this cave overlooking the warm lake, rich in sulfur and borates. After wetting and having breathed, the sour smell healed. The fact was known in the territory and some travelers erected a small church under the castle. Even today the floor in front of the cave is called Troscia dal Longobardo “pozzanghera“.