Grosseto is a town and comune in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Province of Grosseto. The city lies 14 km from the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Maremma, at the centre of an alluvial plain, on the Ombrone river.
Of the roughly 100,000 inhabitants of the commune, approximately 80,000 live in the city proper: the remainder are distributed in frazioni, including Marina di Grosseto, the largest, Roselle (see below), Principina a M...
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Grosseto is a town and comune in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Province of Grosseto. The city lies 14 km from the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Maremma, at the centre of an alluvial plain, on the Ombrone river.
Of the roughly 100,000 inhabitants of the commune, approximately 80,000 live in the city proper: the remainder are distributed in frazioni, including Marina di Grosseto, the largest, Roselle (see below), Principina a Mare, Montepescali, Braccagni, Istia d'Ombrone, Batignano and Alberese.
The origins of Grosseto can be traced back to the High Middle Ages. It is first mentioned in 803 as a fief of the Counts Aldobrandeschi, in a document recording the assignment of the church of St. George to Ildebrando degli Aldobrandeschi, whose successors where counts of the Grossetana Mark until the end of the 12th century.
Grosseto steadily grew in importance owing to the decline of Rusellae and Vetulonia until it was one of the principal Tuscan cities. In 1137 the city...
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