Travel Guide Maremma

History has not been soft with this land, which once the Etruscan and Roman gloires ended, fell into oblivion because of the unhygienic nature of its surroundings, and formerly baptized Maremma Amara (Maremma bitter). The Maremma is delimited north by Follonica and its metalliferous hills, south by Orbetello and the oasis of Burano, east by Mount Amiata and west by sea. Maremma comes from the Latin Martian through which the Romans indicated the splendid coastline on which they decided to establish themselves. Rather, skeptics look towards a Spanish origin of the word, attributing it to marisma that refers to swamps. It was only after long years of cleaning up the territory, thanks to the intervention of the Lorena, that the territory found prestige and interest. It is even because of this delay that it has retained the characteristics now most appreciated by tourists: a clean and wild sea, an extraordinarily fertile and generous nature, villages hung on the flanks of the hills and so many archeological remains still objects of discovery. The way of life that brings back to ancient traditions, where time flows at a different pace, contrasts completely with the urbanized life of the major cities of northern Tuscany.Discovered or rediscovered by intellectuals in the 1970 s and 1980 s, it became, in very short time, a highly fashionable place (the unreasonably high price of houses proves it). Even colonized in summer by the city's inhabitants, she knows how to keep its unique specificity, with its flanks of wheat hills passing from yellow to brown and punctuated with green when a small wood appears. This rural landscape, in rural houses without the artistic richness that characterizes the other Tuscan regions, belongs to a centuries-old heritage. Today, its protected natural parks and parks are the privileged habitats of hundreds of aquatic and terrestrial animal species, territory in the midst of which man has been able to integrate and develop a living space, thanks to healthy and abundant agriculture. Cultural tourism is only richer: museums, archeological parks, thermal waters, trekking trails, horse riding, festivals and gastronomic parties. On the coast, the cattle are kept, kept by the last butterflies, the cowboys of this toscan Far West.History. Like around Tuscany, Etruscos are the first known colonizers of the Maremma. People of browsers, they would have left Lydie, because of famine, looking for new territories to develop a more supplied agriculture.In 294, the center of Roselle falls under Roman control. Gradually the romanization of the Maremma coastline takes place. During the Upper Middle Ages, the spaces developed for dwellings move to the hills, either because of barbarian invasions or the recurring assaults of pirates. The Maremma then becomes a place of proliferation of monasteries, churches, castles, resulting from the presence of large families, such as the Della Gherardesca, Ardengheschi or Aldobrandeschi. In the xiith century, the Maremma is attached to the province of Siena, by strategic interest. The region then weakened and suffered continual degradation until it fell into oblivion to suffer the endemic presence of malaria for almost two centuries. In the middle of the seventeenth century, the grand duke of Tuscany, Pietro Leopoldo, decides to clean up the territories, abolish the monopolies, introduce new cultures and give the inhabitants the means to build a house. Father Leonardo Ximenes is involved in the realization of pipes to clean the wetlands and participates in the recovery plan. It will take two centuries for consolidation to be complete.La Maremme offers a special dimension of Tuscany, a Tuscany unknown, wild and, in contrast to the cultural refinement of the region, almost rustic or even archaic. The former Maremma Amara is now known as Maremma Amata, the beloved Maremma.