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Rezzano-Nicosia is a hamlet of the Italian municipality of Calci, in the province of Pisa, in Tuscany.

Physical geography
Rezzano-Nicosia is located in the plain, at the eastern limit of the Val Graziosa di Calci, along the road that leads to Montemagno. The village is crossed by the creek Zambra di Montemagno (4 km) and in Nicosia flows the Vallino di Nicosia (1 km), a small water course that is born from Monte Verruca (537 m) and goes to the Zambra. Just south of Nicosia, in the woods going up to Verruca, is the source of Sant'Agata.

The village is composed of two major towns, Rezzano and Nicosia, united in a single urban area together with other smaller towns such as Cappetta, L'Aietta, Pian di Sodo and Venice. Rezzano-Nicosia borders to the west with La Corte-San Piero, to the south with Monte Verruca, to the east with Montemagno and to the north with the Certosa di Calci. The village is just over 1 km from the town and about 12 km from Pisa.

History

Reign
Rezzano is the oldest of the localities that make up the hamlet, as mentioned in a document of the archbishopric archive of Pisa of 12 November 964, where we read of land possessions of a certain Count Rodolfo in this area. The name is of Latin origin and comes from Rethianus. The town is named again in an instrument of 1177, rogato proprio a Rezzano, with which Uguccione son of Ugo received in enfiteusi from the archbishop's canteen of Pisa some goods between Rezzano and Campo.

Originally, in the 13th century the convent of St Augustine of Nicosia was called "Rezzano" because of the greater importance of this place in the medieval period.

Nicosia

Nicosia is the most important place among those that make up the village and it was born from the 13th century when the convent complex of Sant'Agostino was built. The monastery was built around 1264 by Ugo da Fagiano, archbishop of Nicosia of Cyprus, in a wooded area until then owned by the Cistercian monks of San Michele alla Verruca. The complex was originally called "episcopy" and later "Sant'Agostino a Rezzano", given the importance of the nearby village. In 1292 an attack with looting by the Lucchesi, allied with Florence against the Pisani, was recorded in Nicosia.

In the following centuries the convent of Nicosia grew of importance, and by decree of 28 May 1404 the Podestà Gabbriello Maria Visconti of Pisa exempt the Agostinians from every imposition or tax. With the suppression of the order, the convent passed towards the end of the eighteenth century to the Franciscan friars and the church of Sant'Agostino was erected in the parish.

In 1833 there were 463 inhabitants in Nicosia.

It was always bordered on the dependencies of Montemagno, it was with it a hamlet of Vicopisano until 1884, when they passed to the municipality of Calci.

Monuments and places of interest
Church and convent of St. Augustine, pri