The Natural Park of Maremma - farmhouse Magnaboschi

The Regional Natural Park of Maremma was instituted in 1975 but, in spite of its reduced dimension (10.000 hectares) and its youth, it soon became a point of reference for a large number of people. In 1993 was decorated with the Certificate of European Park, granted by European Council. The park’s visit will certainly be a pleasant and instructive experience, but it is important bearing in mind that only one tour could be, in some case, disappointing because a short tour doesn’t offer great chances to meet wild animals; in fact the Park is not a zoo, animals are free, wild and not at our disposal. You could visit the Park only on foot; there are two main entrances: Alberese and Talamone. Tour itineraries that start from Alberese are possible every days. For further information about opening and closing time and conditions contact the park Visit Centre.

Castiglione della Pescaia - farmhouse Magnaboschi

Castiglione della Pescaia is an ancient village that overlooks the sea situated between Punta Ala and Marina di Grosseto. The old quarter is like a balcony on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The presence of a tourist seaport offers the possibility of daily tours for the islands of Tuscan’s Archipelago. Castiglione della Pescaia boasts old origins: the first population signs of this area go back to sixty thousand years, while the first urban settlement was Vetulonia, an old Etruscan town founded in the vicinity of Prile’s Lake (no longer existence). Romans instead built the Salebrone village, well-known for its mild climate, for the lake abounding in fish and surroundings abounding in games. After the fall of the Roman Empire and the Barbarian incursions, in 962 Castiglione was surrendered to Pisa by Ottone 1st, the Emperor of Germania. Pisa exploited the resources without worrying about the sand filling the port and of the waters of the lake Prile that, becoming stagnant, caused the increase of malaria epidemics.

DIaccia Botrona - farmhouse Magnaboschi

The Natural riserve of Diaccia Botrona is large more than 1000 Hectares, and is noted as most important humid Italian area. This reserve includes both the wetlands and coastal area and pines. It’s a large marshy environment, deep about 30-40 cm, linked indirectly with sea by artificial channels. It’s a residual portion of Prile lake, changed to marsh with progressive closing of area separating from sea and then reclaimed.The Diaccia Botrona has a rare ecosystem, that put up several types of animals and vegetables. Birds is most important components of reserve. In fact, there are about 200 species that alternate during the year; about 80 make there nest. The most important are: marsh hawks, the white heron, the osprey, the black kite, the red heron, the bittern, and the cuckoo.

La Casa Rossa - farmhouse Magnaboschi

The Red House was built by Pietro Leopoldo I of Lorena in 1765, in action plan for reclamation directed by engineer, Jesuit, astronomer and plumber Leonardo Ximenes. He made built a channel (The regal Channel or Magister), and at the end he made built a house, the Red House, with right instruments to adjust the outflow of water. The structure was built between 1765 and 1767, it is supported by three arches where they came down the canal instruments. The building is a bridge-building used to adjust the outflow of the water from marsh to sea. The building masterfully restored in recent years, stands on a bridge with three arches, and is the oldest and best preserved castle hydraulic in Maremma. Between 1833 and 1835, when it was dug another channel, was added to the five-arched brick and travertine bridge.

The Island Clodia - farmhouse Magnaboschi

The Island Clodia On a round hill are the ruins of a Roman villa (which the family Clodi built in the first century. BC on what was then an island near the shores of Lake Prile) and an abbey of Benedictine (built around 1000). The remains visible today consist of two walls built with an outer lining of concrete. On the west side of the hill remain traces of a road access

Orbetello and its lagoon - farmhouse Magnaboschi

The town of Orbetello is on a small peninsula surrounded by lagoons of Levante and western; it’s divided by an artificial dam that, from 1841, combines it with the promontory of Monte Argentario. The lagoon extends for approximately 27 km ². The average depth is of about one metre, the maximum one does not exceed 2 m. The lagoons are closed by two portion of land named ‘tomboli’ of Feniglia and Giannella, which offer to visitors several kilometres of beautiful beaches. The lagoon waters are rich in fish prized as sea bass, bream, mullet and eel. Times were also caught shrimp and shellfish. The fish is processed on site or sold in many markets of Italy and abroad. Production of ‘bottarga’ of mullet and preparation of eels nuanced (smoked eel with added spices and hot pepper) are, without a doubt, the most typical course of local cuisine. Orbetello is placed in a unique and spectacular, unique is its topography, like the view from the bow of a ship anchored in placid waters of the lagoon and united the Argentario cape by artificial dam, as though it were a bridge, allowing down to earth. Anadiomene City, the city that is rising from the sea, as calls Raffaele Del Rosso paraphrasing a judgement by Gabriele D'Annunzio about Venice. Orbetello perhaps precisely for this particular geographical place has always been coveted land of conquest, belonging, during the centuries, to Aldobrandeschi, Spaniards, Austrians, French, Lorraine and also to 'Three Fountains Abbey. L 'origin of the name raises many questions: Orvelus, Urva Tellus Tellus or Urbis? City circular, the city or town of herbs? Its origins remain mysterious, and if the Piccinino in 1455, had not plundered the archives, perhaps many doubts would be resolved at this time. In the area of the Tombolo of Giannella there are a great variety of migratory birds. Here stop the pink flamingo, a creature of rare beauty that helps to make particular the already beautiful landscape. Right in the middle of the Tombolo, WWF, in a farmhouse Spanish'600 manages a centre for environmental education. From the sea side ‘tombolo’ stretches for miles on the beach at the mouth fine up of Albegna, separated by strips consisting of thick maquis from the road. The Feniglia is the undisputed reign of the most varied shades of green and pleasant perfume of their maquis made more intense by the presence of lush pine forest that pours its shadow restaurateur inside. Here live in complete freedom, as protected species of animals. It is not uncommon along the "white" road bump into groups of deer that eat quietly. A beach of golden sand lapped by clear water complete the scenario of this strip of paradise

L'oasi di Burano - farmhouse Magnaboschi

The Oasis of Burano: One of 80 protected areas, defended and managed by the WWF throughout Italy to preserve habitats or rare and threatened species. Like any oasis it is open to tourists and all nature lovers. This beautiful stretch of Maremma hosts rich flora and fauna represented mainly by birds: one of the most eroded there are ducks like ‘morette’ and ‘moriglioni’, coots, herons, flamingos and many others. To allow everyone to admire the Oasis, WWF organises guided tours along the "nature trails" equipped (including disabled engines) with observation points and huts equipped with signs illustrative. And you can visit the garden of butterflies, the botanical garden and a small Visitors' Centre.
For information and reservations please call +39 564898829

Monte Argentario - farmhouse Magnaboschi

Monte Argentario was probably an island in origin, that was connected afterward to the Tyrrhenian coast by the thin Feniglia and Giannella's tombolos, two narrow strips of sand formed by debris from the sea, accumulated by the currents. The promontory was first populated in pre-historical ages, as we can see from the archaeological finds founded in the Grotta degli Stretti and in Grotta of Saints Clove. At least 10 caves were inhabited, the largest was 10 kilometres in length, with a little lake at 50 metres from the entrance, called Grotta del Granduca in honor of Leopoldo of Lorena, who promoted the excavations. Thanks to its position, at the centre of the Tyrrenian Sea, Monte Argentario was a safe port for the first navigators. Because of its strategic position, watch towers were built to help prevent raids by the sea, like the one from the pirate Khair ad Din, called the Redbeard, that in 1544 plundered and ransacked the village of Porto Ercole. The first defensive constructions were built during the Bronze Age, but in the XV century ,under the Republic of Siena, a proper defensive system was organized on the coast of all the Promontory, but it is thanks to the Spanish rulethat the promontory became the most important strong hold in all Tuscany. The State of the Royal Presides was born, formed by the villages of Orbetello, Porto Ercole, Porto Santo Stefano and Talamone, and in 1602, the village of Porto Longone on Elba Island joined the Royal Presides. The promontory, completely mountuous ( 635 metres high ), is characterized by high and rocky coastlines, where one can admire the famous dwarf palm which grows spontaneously, and is also covered in Mediterranean woods, olives trees, vineyards, and orchards. In the vineyards, plantedon terraces escavated in the side of the mountain , the rare Ansonico and Riminese grapes are cultivated. The promontory economy, once based on the fishing, is today stricktly connected with the tourism.

The CENTRE CARAPAX - farmhouse Magnaboschi

CARAPAX is latin name for the carapace, which is the shell of the turtle, and it is the name of the European project and its centre in Italy to protect turtles. The project is truly European because government bodies and associations for the protection of nature throughout Europe and in the first place the European Community participate on it. The turtle-the symbol of the Action Plan for the Mediterranean (WFP) of the United Nations (UNEP, United Nations Environment Programme) - is in serious danger of extinction in the Mediterranean areas. CARAPAX Centre works with the same methods, with the same scientific rigor, and with the same basis of the Belgians to Galapagos. The turtles are obviously smaller. The turtles that breed the Centre CARAPAX not be taken into nature: most come from donations by people who realizes the absurdity of Turtle toy for garden or balcony, or have been confiscated. An other difference is that the centre CARAPAX deals not only tortoises, but also of marsh and marine turtles.
The CENTRE CARAPAX is in LOC. THE VENELLE - CP 34 MASS MARITIME (Grosseto)
For information, please call TEL.: +39 566 940083 - FAX.: +39 0566.90.23.87 or send an e-mail to: carapax@carapax.it

Il Parco Archeologico di Roselle - farmhouse Magnaboschi

The Archaeological Park of Roselle: includes the ruins of the ancient city of Roselle (Rusellae for Romany), whose origins are Etruscan. Situated 10 km from Grosseto, at the point of transition between the Valley of the Maremma in Grosseto, Roselle is one of the best-preserved lucumonies central zone of ‘Etruria’, located on the shore of Lake Prile, it is one of most interesting archaeological areas of Italy. The overlapping walls and buildings belonging to Villanovian, Etruscan and Roman civilizations makes this city an interesting insight into the gradual passage common to all the cities of this territory, the discovery of vases penthouses in red figures suggests an intense trade with Greece and the Greek colonies in southern Italy. Founded in the seventh century BC, Roselle is a coastal city over the lake Prile important for fisheries and trade with Etruscan towns in the interior. It cited by Dionysius of Halicarnassus between cities that brought aid to Latins in the war against Tarquinio Prisco. One of the major Etruscan towns of the area Roselle developed to the detriment of neighbouring lucumonies, especially Vetulonia, hitherto the most important Etruscan town of Maremma. In 294 BC Was invaded by the preponderant power of Rome that enlarged and embellished the city to spas, villas and an amphitheatre that is the best preserved of the area. Under the Empire, Roselle had become Roman City Hall and then transformed into Augusto’s colony. During this period rose the most important monuments such as the Forum and the Basilica, a recollection of rainwater and of course a spa building. In the sixth century was invaded by barbarians and Roselle lost its primacy, then followed the revocation of the Maremma become in the Middle Ages, because the progress of land at the mouth of Ombrone river, a lagoon and then a plain unhealthy and afflicted by malaria and Roselle was virtually abandoned until the remediation of the area by Peter Leopold at the end of '700. In the '50s Roselle was shown the light in all its entirety by a long campaign of excavations

Punta Ala - farmhouse Magnaboschi

Siena - farmhouse Magnaboschi

Siena lies down on three hills between the sources of Arbia and Elsa rivers. It’s a industrial and agricultural centre, rich in works of art and monuments; it’s very important all around the world for his Palio. You visit the province during the whole year: in summer is a cool place, in winter for skiing sports and in spring for the beauties of nature. Founded from the Etruschi, Siena was a roman colony during the epic deeds of Augusto. It became seat of bishop in the ‘700 after the Longobard occupation, but in XI century was imposed itself as lay commune. Sour fights divided Siena from Florence, insomuch that Florence, in 1260, was defeated in Montaperti. After the governments of several lordships, the city fell under the imperial dominion and belonged to Mediceo’ State, then Lorenese State until 1859; in this date was annexed to the Reign of ltalia.