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The Sorano Museum is enriched with the Ricci Busatti Collection dal 02/09/2020 al 30/09/2020
From 30 August 2020 the Archaeological Civic Museum of Sorano has been enriched with a series of archaeological finds from the Ricci Busatti Collection, donated by the family to the State. The [...] At the Archaeological Museum of Vetulonia an exhibition on its history dal 23/07/2020 al 31/10/2020
The exhibition "Here is famous Vetulonia, Vetulonia mater!" Old excavations and new stories by Isidoro Falchi in our days. Exhibits are exhibited that tell the story of Vetulonia in [...]

Museums

Fort Orsini Mediaeval and Renaissance Museum The museum occupies some of the quarters of the fourteenth-century fortress and exhibits mediaeval and renaissance ceramics from around the local [...]

Massa Marittima

The Candlestick Tower and Sienese Fort La Torre del Candeliere, or The Candlestick Tower, is a monument belonging to the Massa Marittima Museum System. Erected in 1228, it served as [...]

Archaeological Museum of Portus Scabris The Museum of Portus Scabris was established in 2009 to disseminate scientific data relating to underwater archaeological excavations conducted [...]

Castiglione della Pescaia

Area archeologica di Vetulonia Vetulonia and its territory Today Vetulonia is a small village overlooking the Grosseto plain, which in Etruscan times was occupied by Lake Prile, [...]

Insediamento rupestre di San Rocco - Parco Archeologico Città del Tufo

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. [...]

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 [...]

Monte Calvo: discovering bio and geo-diversity This route, accessible from the Gavorrano’s Gateway to the Park, is a SIR / SIC (Regional and European site fo Interest) no. 108 [...]

Monuments and places

Massa Marittima

Fonti dell'Abbondanza (Fountain of Abundance) The construction was built by the podestà (the mayor) Ildebrandino of Pisa in 1265, as showed by the epigraph above the second arcade. It [...]

Etruscan Necropolis of Poggio Tondo - The Etruscan in the valley of the Alma river The Etruscan necropolis, today surrounded by the thick woodland of the Mediterranean scrub, is located on the western slopes of Poggio Tondo. [...]

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

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 [...]

Roselle Roselle was an important ancient town of Etruria, which dominated the territory from Amiata to the Tyrrhenian Coast over a long period of time. [...]

Massa Marittima

The Sienese Fortress The Fortress stands in the town centre and was built in 1335-1337 by the Sienese, who integrated the ancient Castello vescovile (Bishop’s [...]

Rocca of Castell’Ottieri The Castle, built around the XIII century, belonged to the Ottieri family. Despite the expansionist designs of the Aldobrandeschi family [...]

Batignano The importance of the castle in the Middle Ages was due to the lead and silver mines located in the area towards Montorsaio. In the historic [...]

Routes

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]