Musei di Maremma - Museum Network of the Province of Grosseto

Introduction the network The Musei della Maremma website is intended as a kind of compass, a guide for a cultural journey through an extraordinary land.

In Maremma, art can be admired in all its forms: from the most ancient, precious testimony of past centuries, to that of our own times, proof of this region's vitality; works shaped by humankind and formed by the awesome forces of nature.Practically every town in this province is home to at least one exhibition space.

And each [...]

Survey Tuscany Region Complete the survey of the Tuscany Region to help the museum network to provide a better service.

Museums

Insediamento rupestre di San Rocco - Parco Archeologico Città del Tufo

Monte Argentario

Permanent Exhibitions of the Spanish Fortress: Submerged Memories and Shipwrights The Fortezza Spagnola, or “Spanish Fortress”, overlooks the old town and was a military building constructed in the early seventeenth century [...]

Museum Association of Sovana and San Mamiliano The museum of San Mamiliano houses objects found in votive deposits at the entrance of the “Via Cava”, or excavated road, known as [...]

Massa Marittima

Museum Complex of San Pietro all'Orto: Museum of Sacred Art and Contemporary Art Collection Museum of Sacred Art The Museum of Sacred Art highlights in particular the most important artistic and historical period of the town, from the 1300s to the 1400s, [...]

Massa Marittima

Archaeological Museum of Massa Marittima The Archaeological Museum is housed in Palazzo del Podestà (1225), which overlooks the square of Piazza del Duomo in Massa Marittima. The collection [...]

Trail and Mining Tunnels of Cornacchino Thanks to financing from the “Committee for the Provisional Management of the Museum Park of the Mines of Mount Amiata” it was possible [...]

Castiglione della Pescaia

The collection of military vehicles and objects of World War II The creation of the collection of military vehicles and objects of World War II was mainly due to the passionate work of Renzo Menoni (born in [...]

Museum of the ‘Focarazza’ of Saint Catherine This ethnographic collection of the celebration of the Fire of Saint Catherine is housed in the premises of a former blacksmith's forge. [...]

Attractions

Padule di Scarlino The wetland of the Padule di Scarlino is a mix of salt water and fresh water, a relict of what was once a typical landscape of the Maremma. [...]

Istia d'Ombrone The name of Istia (istia = island) and its importance in the Middle Ages was due to its strategic position, from which the city controlled [...]

Massa Marittima

Parco della Rimembranza (Memorial Park) - Monument in memory of Giuseppe Garibaldi The Park was built in 1924 following the rules that imposed the construction of local memorial monuments to commemorate the fallen of the Great [...]

Massa Marittima

Church of San Francesco - Massa Marittima Tradition has it that San Francesco (Saint Francis of Assisi) stayed in Massa Marittima for a while and promoted there the birth of a first group [...]

Church of San Francesco - Grosseto The church of San Francesco was originally a Benedictine Church dedicated to San Fortunato. In 1289 the Church was consigned to the Franciscans, [...]

The Marina of Scarlino Only 16 nautical miles far from the island of Elba and at a short distance from the medieval villages of Scarlino and Massa Marittima, the Marina [...]

Montepescali The castle of Montepescali was first mentioned in a document in the XI century. Right at the entrance of the village is the Church of Santi [...]

Massa Marittima

Palazzo del Podestà The palace was built in 1225, when Massa Marittima was still a Free City. Within the travertine walls of the building, the podestà (the [...]

Paths

Massa Marittima

Massa Marittima tour Tour type Archaeological-cultural tour Type of itinerary: Walking route Distance: 2 km Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes Height difference: Descent Grading: Easy Description: Tour [...]

Massa Marittima

Tour of the ancient village of Lake Accesa and the lakeside After parking in the village of Pesta, the tour runs along the Bruna river until you reach a wooden fence on the left: the starting point of [...]

Via delle Fonti Type of itinerary: Walking route Distance: Around 1.5 Km Time: Around 1 hour Height difference: 200 m climb Grading: moderate Description: The [...]

Via della Castagna Type of itinerary: Walking route Distance: Around 2 Km Time: Around 2 hours Height difference: 250 m. climb Grading: Moderate Description: The [...]