Maremma
This region of Italy certainly owes its national and international tourist appeal to its wonderful shores, coastal pinewoods, coves and bays.
Maremma, however, is definitively much more than just the sea. This portion of Tuscany, in fact, is also rightfully famous for its large number of natural oasis, where precious ecosystems miraculously succeed in surviving progress.
The Marshlands are an example, like the Orbetello Lagoon and the Lake of Burano, but the hinterland as well contains areas of great importance: woods, minor lakes and small rivers where many animal and vegetable species, today extinguished in other parts of Italy, here can survive.
What's more the Etruscans, one of the most mysterious populations in history, have left in Maremma highly valuable traces of their history and archaeology. Every stone, every path in Maremma represents the past.
The area is extraordinarily rich, with so many things to see: primitive Paleolithic caves, Etruscan tombs, ancient Roman roads and cities, striking medieval villages built on top of the hills or carved out of tuff, coastal towers and abandoned abbeys lost in the woods.
In the villages the ancient popular culture is well alive, enhanced by a large number of feasts and celebrations. The number of fairs and exhibitions have also increased in these last years.
