Grosseto & Maremma City Guide
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All material on this document is © Netplan. © Netplan - Internet solutions for tourism Photos courtesy of: Agenzia Turismo della Maremma & Municipality of Grosseto THE GROSSETO & MAREMMA CITY GUIDE 1 Summary THINGS TO KNOW 3 Getting there 4 History and culture THINGS TO SEE 5 Churches palaces and monuments THINGS TO TRY 8 Eating and Drinking 10 Shopping 11 Hotels and lodgings THINGS TO EXPERIENCE 12 Events 14 La Dolce Vita ITINERARIES 15 Beaches, marina and nature reserves 17 Saturnia hot springs & Tufa Towns 20 The Islands of Giglio and Giannutri © Netplan - Internet solutions for tourism THE GROSSETO & MAREMMA CITY GUIDE / THINGS TO KNOW 3 4 THE GROSSETO & MAREMMA CITY GUIDE / THINGS TO KNOW Getting there History and culture By plane: Rome-Fiumicino and Pisa are the swamps began to be drained. Grosseto came nearest airports to Grosseto, both operate definitively to life under Grand Duke Leopold national and international flights. From Rome- II (1828) and the great reclamation that Fiumicino airport, the “Leonardo” shuttle was achieved through significant hydraulic train takes you to Rome-Termini central engineering works that made the Maremma station, where trains to Grosseto leave. Pisa fertile and luxuriant. In those days, the fields airport too is linked via shuttle train to Pisa were owned by a few great families while Centrale station. Trains to Grosseto depart the peasant laborers lived in conditions of from here. misery. This period saw the development of banditry whose unquestioned hero was the brigand Tiburzi. The life of this Italian Robi n Hood has become legend and his fame as a defender of the poor has come down to us intact. Finally, the Agency for the Maremma was created in 1951, an important event that had a tremendous impact on a large part of the area. Houses and roads were built and the Agency for the Maremma expropriated, Grosseto & Maremma: landscape Grosseto & Maremma: Orbetello subdivided and reclaimed the entire area, assigning plots of land to a peasant class that Grosseto and the Maremma are within easy For a long time the Maremma was one of had never owned anything. reach in Italy thanks to the region’s central the poorest parts of Italy. It was covered by position. unhealthy swamps where malaria and cholera were endemic. By car: from Milan take the A1 highway toward Parma, continue on the A15 toward La Grosseto, the provincial capital of the Spezia and merge onto the A12 toward Pisa/ Maremma, began to develop around 935, Rosignano. From here continue on the E80- after Roselle, an ancient city that was first expressway to Grosseto. From Rome take Etruscan and then Roman, was devastated by the A12 highway toward Civitavecchia and the Saracens. continue on the E80 expressway (Aurelia) to Grosseto. From Florence take the Firenze- In 1138, it was granted the rank of Civitas, Siena expressway to Siena and continue on when Pope Innocent II also transferred the road 223 to Grosseto. From Bologna take archdiocese from Roselle. From the 11th the A1-highway to Florence, exit at Firenze- century, it was a feudal holding of the Certosa, take the Firenze-Siena expressway Aldobrandeschi, passing under the dominion and continue on road 223 to Grosseto. of Siena until they both fell under the control of Florence and Cosimo de Medici in 1559. By train: Grosseto is on the Rome-Genova The noble Florentine family stimulated the route, with frequent services running in city’s economic recovery, digging canals and both directions. There are train stations in constructing the city’s present walls and Orbetello, Albinia and Capalbio too, but less public buildings. The Medici attempted to trains stop in these places. Services to and reclaim the countryside but without much from Florence are frequent, but in most cases success. It was only in 1765, with the arrival you have to change train in Pisa or Livorno. of the Grand Dukes of Lorraine, that the © Netplan - Internet solutions for tourism © Netplan - Internet solutions for tourism THE GROSSETO & MAREMMA CITY GUIDE / THINGS TO SEE 5 6 THE GROSSETO & MAREMMA CITY GUIDE / THINGS TO SEE Churches palaces and monuments Museo Archeologico e d’Arte della Maremma The façade has recently been restored and counts in 1300. The western walls were The archeological and art museum is housed returned to its original splendor. The inside is constructed by the Republic of Siena in 1400, in the former courthouse. The museum has a imposing in its naked simplicity. There are the with semi-circular rather than square towers, collection of 5,000 prehistoric, Etruscan and remains of frescoes from the end of the 13th and many other strategic novelties. The Roman relics. It is organized into 5 sections century and there are several 11th-century southwest walls, overlooking the sea, are the and presents the vicissitudes of the Etruscan Lombard frescoes in the interior façade. best preserved. The walls preserve the very city of Roselle in chronological order. One There is an imposing Baptistery, closed by an suggestive ancient nucleus of the town. The section is dedicated to the archeology of the iron gate, which consists of a Travertine basin two churches of San Giovanni Battista and province of Grosseto, excluding Roselle, from from 1267 and a marble tabernacle that was the Santissima Annunziata are worth visiting prehistory to late antiquity. added later. for the many works of art they preserve The piazza contains several medieval palazzi, inside. In particular, in the second church you Roselle Archeological Area: ruins of the including the centers of the civil power of the can see the valuable painting, “La Madonna Etruscan, Roman and Medieval cities. It was time: facing the Duomo, there is the Palazzo che allatta il Bambino” (Madonna Nursing the located on a plateau that allowed controlling del Podestà that was built around 1225 to Child) by Bartolomeo di Lando. the present plain of Grosseto, which in ancient house the family that ruled the city in the times was occupied by the ancient lagoon middle ages. On the other side of the piazza CAPALBIO A land of brigands and wild boar, system that formed a large saltwater lake is the Palazzo Comunale, formed from the Capalbio is a splendid medieval town that deep enough to be navigable. You can see the fusion of three house-towers constructed in rises on a wooded hill covered with typical stratified remains of the Etruscan-Roman city: different periods. Climbing Via Mancini, one Maremma thatch. The view from the town the city wall, remains of Etruscan houses and comes to the Fortezza dei Senesi, joined is astonishing and embraces the entire Grosseto & Maremma: Duomo of Massa Marittima the Imperial age complex, with forum, stone to the Torre del Candeliere by an arched Maremma from the plain to the coastal pine streets and a well-preserved amphitheater. bridge. The fortress is a splendid example of forests and the silver sea. The atmosphere of GROSSETO Visiting hours: from 09:00 to sunset. medieval architecture and was built by the the village’s narrow streets is unique and has The Maremma’s provincial capital sits on a Sienese conquerors to physically separate the made Capalbio a summer resort destination plain traced by the Ombrone river. Grosseto THE MAREMMA three parts of the city (terzieri) and prevent for Italy’s cultural, political and economic was originally surrounded by a marine gulf MASSA MARITTIMA is located in lovely position the residents from rising up against them. elite. that, over the centuries, was transformed on a hill. Called the “Jewel of the Middle Museo della Miniera: the mining sector, During the Middle Ages, it was first a possession into a large lagoon. Ages” due to the beauty of its Romanesque which today is in decline, was the backbone of the Aldobrandeschi family, passed to the Although it was damaged by bombing during and Gothic buildings, it is a monumental of the local economy for decades. The Mining Orsini counts and, in 1416, was annexed to the 2nd World War, the city has a lovely city where everything has remained in the Museum is housed in a system of subterranean the Republic of Siena. The territory was later old town center enclosed by its marvelous harmonious proportions of past centuries. tunnels that were used as an air-raid shelter assigned to the Medici of Florence and began Hexagonal Walls.