The Maremma is a treasure trove of unique attractions: it is full of small picturesque villages with an immense cultural heritage, enchanting landscapes of bucolic countryside and rolling hills, magnificent islands, splendid coastlines and protected parks.
Its cuisine with genuine flavours is based on simple but high-quality ingredients.
You can choose any itinerary for a trip out of town, because from Orto de’ Mandorli you can reach the whole of the Maremma in just a few kilometres, and you can also visit the most beautiful cities in Tuscany, such as Siena and Florence.
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For centuries, Vetulonia was a mythological Etruscan city, an economic, political and artistic power that disappeared into thin air.
Isidoro Falchi, with his 19th-century excavations, after centuries of oblivion, found it in a small village called Colonna, and from then until today, excavation campaigns have testified to a flourishing sea town whose people, sailing the waters of the Prile (today a cultivated plain), engaged in commercial and cultural exchanges with the East and with Greece.
A common thread links the constant work of the Isidoro Falchi Archaeological Museum, the Municipality of Castiglione della Pescaia and the Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali (Cultural Heritage Agency), and this is the desire to give back to visitors precious fragments of a past that belongs to us, the imprint that the Etruscan people have left indelibly on this region.
The Maremma is home to delightful villages rich in art, history and culture. Discovering the small villages dotted around the area is the perfect way to savour its food and wine traditions and ancient history.
From the metalliferous hills to the “Città del Tufo”, from the countless thermal springs whose curative properties were already known to ancient civilisations, every visitor will experience the feeling of finding themselves in a place beyond time.
A wide range of hiking trails and the possibility of practising all kinds of sports make the Maremma a destination suitable for all types of travellers.
Between the blue of the sea and the green of the hills lies Castiglione della Pescaia, the splendid capital of our municipality; an ancient medieval village, enclosed within a formidable wall, it has always been a village of fishermen who bring life to the port-canal with their boats and their darting cargoes. Just a few steps away is the Casa Rossa Ximenes, which gives access to the Diaccia Botrona Nature Reserve, the last strip of marshland of exceptional historical and natural value.
But the Maremma coast is waiting to be discovered, from the Gulf of Follonica to Argentario: crystal clear sea, long beaches, impervious cliffs, rocky ravines rising up high into the sky.
The crystal-clear waters of the Maremma coastline are among the cleanest in Italy, and the 160 km of fascinating coastline offer a wide variety of environments and unique biodiversity; from large beaches to lush pine forests and completely unspoilt areas such as the Maremma Regional Park (also known as Uccellina Park).
The Tuscan Archipelago National Park with its islands of Gorgona, Capraia, Elba, Giglio, Montecristo, Pianosa and Giannutri, together with many other large and small rocky islands, covers about 600 square kilometres of sea.
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