TOP 10 ANCIENT RUINS
The Tuscan Maremma has an incredible wealth of ancient ruins. Its roots can be traced all the way back to the Bronze Age and even earlier. The museum in Manciano is the only museum in Italy to have something from prehistory all the way to Ancient Rome, ruins that were all discovered within its borders. In the post-WWII years, a lot of the Maremma’s relics were stolen or sold to shady collectors. I often hear stories from locals about urns, statues and funerary monuments that once stood in forgotten small towns until one day, they just disappeared. That doesn’t mean the Maremma is lacking in ruins. She still has some incredible relics that are just waiting to be discovered. From open-air museums to stunning pieces you simply happen upon in the forests, many parts of the Maremma are beautiful reminders of the Etruscans and Ancient Romans who shaped them.
vulci
Vulci is an ancient Etruscan city located near the modern town Canino, which is in the northern part of Tuscia known as Viterbo.
Read moreParco Archeologico Tufo
The sheer age of these Etruscan tombs is mind-boggling. You’re looking at rock graves that date back to the 8th-7th century BCE! And they are anything but simple and small.
Read moreVETULONIA
Vetulonia, formerly called Vetulonium (Etruscan Vatluna), was an ancient town of Etruria, Italy, the site of which is probably occupied by the modern village.
Read moreROSELLE
In the 7th century BC a number of pre-existing Etruscan villages came together to form Rusellae – a city that sat at the feet of Lacus Prilius, a lake that once occupied much of Grosseto‘s now dry plains.
Read morevitozza
Italy’s largest rock city could be hidden at the end of a dirt road. Vitozza is truly Maremma of the Middle Ages, no tourist shops and no gimmicks, just grottoes as they were 400 years ago, carved into the landscape as everlasting symbols of a population that lived a simple life in a natural paradise.
Read moreNecropoli Puntone, Saturnia
The Etruscan necropolis of Puntone is the necropolis closest to the town of Saturnia, where the burials are of a mound type.
Read moreGhiaccio Forte, Scansano
Ghiaccio Forte is thought to have been founded in the 4th century BC,during a time when many Etruscan cities in the Fiora and Albegna valleys were being built, including Saturnia.
Read morecosa
Cosa was built as the first Roman colony in the Maremma in 273BC.
It’s located in what is the modern day Ansedonia, a short distance from Orbetello and overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Read moreGIANNUTRI ISLAND
Giannutri was was first inhabited in the Stone Age and went on to become a bustling port during the Roman Empire, when it was known as Artemisia to the Greeks and Dianium to the Romans.
When the Romans left, the island was abandoned
Read moretalamone
The area around Talamone is scattered with the remains of the Romans who once lived and built gorgeous villas here.
Wandering around the countryside, you can’t help but stumble across bridges, columns and the remains of houses.
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