Musei di Maremma - Museum Network of the Province of Grosseto

Museums

Castiglione della Pescaia

Red House of Ximenes Multimedial Museum La Casa Rossa Ximenes, or Red House of Ximenes, was built by Jesuit engineer Leonardo Ximenes in 1765-68 as part of the reclamation of the marshland [...]

MUSEOLAB – Museo Laboratorio della Città di Grosseto

Museum of Pre and Proto-history of Valle del Fiora Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the Fiora Valley The museum was inaugurated in 1985 with the intention to reconstruct the lives of [...]

“Terra Rossa” terminal

Aquarium of the Orbetello Lagoon The Aquarium of the Orbetello Lagoon, in Talamone, is thematic and relates the fauna and flora of the Orbetello Lagoon, as well as the relationship [...]

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 [...]

Castel del Piano

Piero Bonacina Garden In his own garden in Montegiovi, which he has named “Arte a Parte”, or “Art Apart”, the artist Piero Bonancina has collected [...]

Massa Marittima

Mining Museum of Massa Marittima The museum is the result of the transformation of an ancient quarry in which three tunnels had been created for use as a shelter during the Second [...]

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 [...]

The Convent of the Clarisse and the Church of the Bigi The convent was built at the end of the XVI century to replace the ancient convent of Santa Chiara, which had been destroyed during the [...]

The Cassero and the town walls Following the annexation of Grosseto to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Cosimo I de Medici entrusted Baldassarre Lanci with the construction [...]

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

The Fortress Rocca Pisana Located at the top of the village of Scarlino, the Fortress dominates the wide coast and the valley of the Pecora River. The archaeological [...]

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 [...]

The Fortress Roccaccia di Montevitozzo The Roccaccia or Rocca di Monte Vitozzo is located in one of the highest places of the mountain, precisely at 926 m. above sea level. The Roccaccia [...]

Massa Marittima

The Norma Parenti Garden The garden, designed by the landscape sculptress Maria Dompè, is called “Sol omnibus lucet” and is dedicated to the young [...]

Routes

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 [...]

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 [...]