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Maremma
Playing polo at the seaside
Which sport embodies emotion, speed, action and a great team spirit? If you are thinking of football you are wrong. We are speaking about polo.
The magic of the Tarot in Maremma
There is a place in Maremma where art meets Nature. A magic place to get immersed, surrounded by a concert of forms and colours. This is the Giardino dei Tarocchi, created by Niki de Saint Phalle.
A place shrounded in mystery
If you're arriving at Amiata along the road from Grosseto, the entrance to Casteldelpiano is marked by an evocative symbol: the impressive remains of the old bell tower of San Processo, recently restored due to an initiative, which is the result of years of institutional and private commitments and made possible...
The magic of the Della Robbia
In the fourteenth-century Pieve delle Sante Flora e Lucilla, the patron saints of the town, there is an exceptional collection of ceramics by the Della Robbia family, making it worth your while to visit this lovely town in the Monte Amiata area. Created in the space of approximately 30 years (the triptych dates back to 1464, but all the Della Robbia...
The ancient heart still throbs
Santa Fiora, a hamlet of the Mount Amiata area once home to the Aldobrandeschi and the Sforza families, was the birthplace of Father Balducci, the outspoken intellectual who died in anaccident in Cesena on 25 April 1992. The commemoration of the twentieth anniversary...
A COMPLETELY MAREMMA-STYLE FESTIVAL
A whole month purposely devoted to the "Maremma" brand and to its food and farming products, cultural and scenery in a winning combo of quality and territoriality. The festival dedicated to the Maremma area, organised and thought up by Grosseto Chamber of Commerce, in association with the Grosseto Provincial Government and Grossetofiere...
The Garden Of The Wonders
The Tarot Garden is located on the border with the Lazio side of the Maremma area. The first thing you see is the twinkling mirrors and colours of the undulating figures that appear amongst the Mediterranean scrub. Between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s, the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle created this large-scale, outdoor work of art...
