Grosseto Province

[ 5/15/02: 7 pages, 14 photos, 1 woodcut ]

The Etruscan and Roman town of Rusellae, about 3 km NE of its descendant Roselle Terme, is still being excavated. My site focuses on the amphitheatre but also shows the forum, a few simple mosaic pavements and three very small Etruscan tombs.

[ 3 pages, 9 photos ]

Orbetello

[ 6/21/04: 3 pages, 16 photos ]

Pitigliano is one of the most curious little towns I've ever visited. Yes, it has tortuous medieval streets, a few churches, a castle and a museum; but two special interests set it apart from other Tuscan hilltowns. It has centuries of Jewish history behind it (and a beautiful old synagogue); and it sits in the center of a radiating network of what many people say are Etruscan roads. There is also a paleochristian tempietto . . . or maybe not . . .

[ 2 pages, 5 photos ]

Vetulonia is now just a village but was once a major Etruscan center, and preserves a chunk of cyclopean Etruscan wall, the so‑called "arx" or citadel; plus a number of Etruscan tombs within walking distance of the center of town. Most of them are fenced off and unvisitable, but one is not (even if it's apparently the least interesting of the lot).

[ 5/15/02: 2 pages, 2 photos ]

Similarly, Talamone today is a very small fishing port. It may not have been much larger 2500 years ago, but it too was an Etruscan center, and somewhere in between it acquired a powerful medieval castle.

[ 5/9/98: 1 page, 1 photo + 1 close-up ]

The strikingly beautiful Duomo of Massa Marittima seems to be virtually unknown: why, I couldn't say. For now, a single small page showing some rather gruesome Lombard sculpture.

[6/27/02: 1 page, 1 photo — plus more in my diary ]

I've been to the capital city of Grosseto, and it deserves a bit more of a site. While I sift thru several rolls of film though, there's still just a bit of something onsite, plus the usual offsite links.