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Its exquisite and singular beauty, scenery, landscapes, products, the skilful recovery and valorisation of its great wealth of history are but a few of its most significant features. The Maremma can be likened to an untamed island set in the midst of Tuscany, like the
Island of Montecristo itself, between the islands of Elba and
Giglio.It is a multi-coloured world in which each colour highlights yet another of its features of beauty: glorious red sunsets, the dazzling yellows of
wild broom and sunflowers, the deep blue of starry, starry
nights, the vibrant green of rolling fields.
The history of this land bears witness again and again to the intrinsically passionate bond which
links its people to their land and the landscape tells the same tale;
olive groves, vineyards, boundless plains, wild Mediterranean
bush, marshlands, chestnut forests, ash woodlands and, last but not least, the magnificent
sea.
Travelling through the Maremma, from north to south and from the sea to the mountains, visitors are magically captivated by its
rich and variegated landscape: long, sun-kissed beaches with magnificent
cliffs plunging to the sea at Marina di Grosseto, Castiglione della Pescaia, Punta Ala, Follonica; rolling
hills scattered with small farms and charming villages; the
vulcanic mountains of the Amiata; the Island of Giglio, the largest, and the solitary Island of
Montecristo, the Island of Giannutri with its sheer cliffs and enchanting
Roman villas: the Argentario coast , a spectacular promontory joined to the coast by long strips of
sandy dunes, the Giannella and the Feniglia; the Orbetello Lagoon ; the
Maremma Regional Nature Park, the Metalliferous Hills, rich in iron, pyrite and
silver.
This infinite variety is born of Nature itself, which in the endless
generosity of the Tuscan Maremma, spontaneously offers up the therapeutic virtues of its
spring waters which rise from its heart to the Maremma spas, such as
Saturnia, near the splendid tufa rock towns of Sovana, Pitigliano and Sorano, crowned by
fortresses and medieval castles.
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