The town of Bibbona is in the province of Livorno and has a population of about 3,000 inhabitants. Besides its artistic jewels such as the XIII-century parish of San Ilario and the Tower of Bibbona, it is at a few kilometres' distance from the "Macchia della Magona" National Park.

At the origins, Bibbona was a Medieval fortress that belonged to the abbey of Santa Maria in Vico Masio and the bishopric of Lucca bought it later on. Around the XII century, the Counts Della Gherardesca established their presence in this area and they carried out the main fortifications. Then, the Della Gherardesca became the leaders of the vicariate of the town to keep the administrative continuity on the castle bought by the Republic of Pisa.
In the XIII century, Bibbona was the chief town of an autonomous "comunitas" with political instruments that were without equal in the Val di Cecina. This is why the town was at the head of a rebellion against Pisa in 1345 that was tamed at the end of an exhausting siege started by John Hakwood's English mercenary troops in 1371, after years of battle . In 1406, the rule of Pisa ended and the Florentine seigniory substituted it.
Marina di Bibbona, a seaside resort among the most renowned in the Tyrrhenian coast, rose around the fortress built in the XVIII century to control the pirates' incursions. The town of Bibbona was included in the Tuscan Grand Duchy and it experienced a short parenthesis of the 1801's Napoleonic occupation before it went back to the Lorraine's grand ducal seigniory in 1815. It was included in the Kingdom of Italy in 1860.