Castagneto Carducci confines to the west with the sea, to north with the country one of Bibbona, to east with Monteverdi Marittimo and Sassetta, to south with Suvereto and San Vincenzo. The Common one has not endured during this last century a great expansion and introduces therefore a conformation much similar one to that one brought back on the catastali maps of the 1800's, conserved near the Archives of State of Livorno. The original nucleus from the Castle Of the Gherardesca, situated in top to a height and encircled from walls (of which the forehead turned towards the sea) and from the propositura of S. Lorenzo survives, of which the single facade is visible because the body of the building is inglobato to the inside of the town-walls. Outside them it walls the city center has been developed between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth century, around to the Castle second an outline ring composite it concentrates to us that they follow the constituent line and contours of the land the viario order. This first original nucleus, that it comprised also the Hospital of S. Antonio and some houses constructed along the ancient one via Bolgherese, is documented from the scattered signs and the architectonic survivals of all the area that extends to the shoulders of the center of the City Council.

This last one was the ancient palace prethorium, managed in the centuries from the family comita them, reconstructed in the Eighteenth century to expenses of the community, passed in 1838 between the possedimenti of Of the Gherardesca and remained of they property until 1849. In the centuries succeeded to you the village is expanded to the west, in direction of the sea, following a main director, constituted from puts into effect them Via Vittorio Emanuele II. The territory place to the West constituted, of the rest, the natural outlet in plain and connected the country with the more important ways of communication.

They existed to you, in fact, already some buildings, as mail to the n testifies one lapide. 54 of via Vittorio Emanuele II and the colored relief in terracotta that it is found to the inside of the Nail head of the Annunciation, in S. Lorenzo. A system of secondary ways to south of this axis has concurred a light development of the country, having followed once again the levels of the land. Posizionato on a hill finds the small village of Castagneto Carducci, called therefore in order to honor the poet Giosuè Carducci who then had passed part of the juvenile years and remembered in the beautiful dedicated poetry the cypresses of Bolgheri.

It describes in its work "Davanti to Saint Guido" the cypresses long the road from the Church of Saint Guido, outside Castagneto Carducci, until Bolgheri.