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Grosseto is the central city of Maremma, capital
of the province, 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. Of
particular interest are the Duomo, the market every Thursday morning just outside
the walls of the old town, and the archeological museum, which houses a great
number of outstanding Etruscan and Roman artifacts. Most the resources available
in a medium sized city can be found in Grosseto, including entertainment, shopping,
banks, and hospitals. Grosseto is also a major train and bus intersection from
which most major Italian cities can be reached.
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| Marina di Grosseto
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Marina and Principina are smaller beach towns
designed to accommodate beachgoers during the summer months. They host night street
markets and small amusement park entertainment. All beach supplies and delicious
ice cream shops can be found in both. Marina is slightly bigger with its new
port and boardwalk by the beach and therefore has a wider selection of restaurants,
bars, and small shops, but Principina is, because of its smaller size, sometimes
more pleasant for a quiet night stroll along the beach.
Besides these two nearby beach towns, Castiglione della Pescaia, Punta Ala, Porto
Santo Stefano, and Porto Ercole are all within a half hour's drive along the coast.
From these other towns ferries leave daily for the islands of Giglio and Elba.
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Accessible by train and by bus from Grosseto,
Florence and Rome are only two hours away from Tenuta San Carlo. Florence is a
historical center for the Italian arts, and home of the Uffizi gallery, il ponte
vecchio, il Duomo di Firenze, and the David. Rome is Italy’s capital, and
is as much a center for the arts as Florence. Among some of the most well known
cultural treasures found in Rome are St. Peters, Castello Sant’Angelo, the
coliseum, the forum, Piazza Navona, the Tiber Island, the Circus Maximus, and
many others.
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| Siena is located in the hills of
Tuscany forty-five minutes from Tenuta San Carlo and is accessible by bus from
Grosseto. It’s one of Tuscany’s smaller historical landmarks, and
is home to il Palio. Pisa, known for its leaning tower of Pisa, is two hours
away from Tenuta San Carlo and is accessible by train from Grosseto. Both Siena
and Pisa are small enough that they can be adequately visited in a day’s
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| Other smaller sites worth looking
into around Tenuta San Carlo are the thermal baths of Saturnia, the Etruscan ruins
in the smaller hill-side towns of Tuscany especially Roselle, the Uccellina Park surrounding Tenuta
San Carlo, and more specifically La Boca dell'Ombrone (the mouth of the Ombrone
river where the river meets the ocean) located four or five kilometers from Tenuta
San Carlo toward La Trappola along the beach. |
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