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Grosseto is the central city in the Maremma with seventy thousand inhabitants and a busy market for agricultural products and livestock. The old town is still entirely surrounded by its hexagonal shaped walls and ramparts, built by Francesco I and Ferdinando I de Medici. Particular interest are the Dome and the archeological museum, which houses a great number of outstanding Etruscan and Roman artifacts. Grosseto is also a major train and bus intersection from which you can reach any major Italian city.including: Siena - 1 hr, Pisa - 1 hr, Rome - 1 1/2 hrs, Florence - 2 hrs
The province of Grosseto offers a fascinating landscape with a great variety, unspoilt beaches with pine forest, high mountains and many places of interest, historic sites, medieval villages and towns and Etruscan excavations. Visit the Maremma nature park and the highest mountain of Tuscany, the mount Amiata or the Saturnia thermas. History: In 1138 Innocenzo II the transferred here the episcopal center after the decayed Roselle. After the dominion of the Aldobrandeschi, Siena imposed its dominion on the city until the 1336. In 1559 Grosseto was absorbed from the Florence State entering that will be the Granducato of Tuscany. However, in spite of this absorption by Florence, Grosseto dont leaveher crisis: just think that still in 1640 in Grosseto were available only 1340 inhabitants, reduced to 648 in 1745.
The radical change of direction was in the '700 and ' 800 because the Lorena started to reclaim the land around Grosseto and continued after the unification of Italy. After that the historical center became rich of new works and was begun to construct also outside the Medicee Walls.
During the '900, after serious damages endured in the second world war, Grosseto has been become larger and gone defining itself like pole of terziarie activity closely connected to tourist valorization of the coast.
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