THE HISTORY
The Common of Forte dei Marmi it came instituted, for last between those of the Versilia, in 1914. Until then it was territory of the Common one of Pietrasanta. The first human communities that settle down themselves in this place do not go back very behind in the time, in how much good part of these places they were swampy and the other part was marine wooded. Towards the end of XV the century the community of Seravezza asks, to the Commanded one of Pietrasanta, being able to construct a direct road that connects the Apuano center with the sea, so as to to directly be able to transport the marble blocks in order to embark them. Naturally an operation of the sort, beyond to being much complicating, was also much laborious and expensive one; therefore it was not easy for the inhabitants of Seravezza to obtain the authorization to proceed to the realization of the road. Around to the 1520 pressure of the inhabitants of the mountain it obtained the effects hopes to you and sea was proceeded to the hollow realization of the direct link -. The arrival place was equipped of a wharf action to the boarding of the marble blocks and, around to this artefact, they came constructed to huts to use warehouse and room. Therefore the first nucleus of the Marbles had beginning Strongly that, until then, had been attended from shepherds. Around to the 1600 the first documents around to the existence of a community in Caranna locality are had that, therefore, appears to be the first true inhabited nucleus of this locality. The activity tied to the continuous marble and, practically, the wharf, with its road of link with the hollow ones, become the port or point of boarding of the goodses of all the zone north of the Versilia. While, to leave from the beginning of XVII the century, reclamation works in the swamps around to the road are begun, operation that will last for a pair of centuries. In the meantime the zones discounted come lived from stable nuclei that begin to define and to delineate a worthy village of such name. The operation is defined with the construction of an oratory, fundamental nucleus for a stable and official takeover. From the opposite side, that civilian - political, the completion of the country is given from the construction, begun in 1782 and finished in 1788, of a Blockhouse stable center of an equipped military detachment of artillery. The Blockhouse, imposing building and important, together to the marble (the shipment of which it had originated the construction of the road and the wharf therefore of the first nucleus of the takeover), will give the name to the locality, than from this moment will come defined Forte dei Marmi and, with the name, it will acquire the dignity of community and village. Always connected to the extraction of the marble, to the beginning of the 1800's, he comes constituted a society tied to explosive powders, the SIPE, than initially it is alone deposit, then will pass to the production. With the beginning of the first World war such activity had a great development that, unfortunately, because of an accidental explosion, was reorganized then in order, to the end of the war, to stop definitively. While, to the end of the century, it comes begun other asset. They are begun to construct boats in the zone that today calls Victoria Apuana. The activity had a good development in the first years of XX the century, touching its maximum when it constructed barges for the army engaged in the first world war. With the end of the war and the reduction of the importance of the transport of the marble via sea - in the meantime, years sixty of the 1800's, it had been constructed the railroad that passed to mount of the Fort - the activity of this industry stops and with it the industrial vocation Forte dei Marmi. Continuous the main activity, but from the 1800's in then economic other asset will come to enrich the place. Particularly important is the discovery of the healthiness of the baths in sea, and therefore the beginning of I use of fine navy for various from those until then known. The years to come will more and more see an expansion emphasized of this activity that, already then, seems the main characteristic of the locality. And it is from this moment that the development of the tourism is made more and more important. They are born lodges and other receptive structures; but, above all, personalities of the art, the culture, the national and international economy in this way construct to their summery residence to the Fort, giving the characterization to this old born village for the boarding of the marble of the Apuane.