Category: 5. History, Art and Culture

Montiano

The village was built in the late thirteenth century as a possession of the Aldobrandeschi family the County of Sovana. Its foundation was resulting in the abandonment of a castle not far from Old...

Old Montiano Castle

The fortified settlement was built between the end of XII and the beginning of  XIII century under the control of the Aldobrandeschi family. Its origins are prior to those of the nearby village of...

Pereta

The village was built by the Aldobrandeschi between the X and XI centuries, becoming an important military center in place to guard an obligatory passageway connecting the coast with the mountain. However, archaeological discoveries...

Magliano

The small Medieval town in the interior of the Grosseto Maremma sits on the ridge of a hill. Archological digs in the zone have revealed various Etruscan Neocropoleis proving that Magliano was an Etruscan...

The Cote Ciombella

The impressive complex of natural granite boulders of Cote Ciombella, presents itself in one or two basal parts,with some projections that may have been used as shelters. Among the most significant prehistoric signs, there...

Roselle Etruscan City

Founded in the seventh century BC, it was quoted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, one of the city that brought help to the Latins in the war against Tarquinio Prisco. He developed to the detriment...

Medici Walls

The walls of Grosseto are the defensive system of the historic center of the city. They are one of the rare examples in Italy of town-walls received almost intact to this day. The city...

Castel di Pietra

Since prehistoric times there are traces of a small permanent settlement within an open along the eastern slopes of the hill cave where the castle is located. The first documentary mention of the castle...