Take a Wonderful Trip to the Maremma region of Tuscany during Vacation
If you are visiting Tuscany in Italy then there are numerous interesting and relaxing places to visit and enjoy. Maremma is one of them that provide a great holiday destination for most of the Europeans to visit and indulge in leisure during their vacation. Looking at Maremma, you will find that it is a unique place and certainly deserves a visit. The place is not only just about history, culture and breathtaking landscapes but also about wine tasting tours and typical products of the place.
Maremma has beautiful panorama and pretty vacation villas. The food in Maremma is quite simple and the traditional culinary art is common among the locals, whereas seasonal products are eaten with a good glass of wine such as Morellino or the white wine from Pitigliano. The most relishing dish is acquacotta, a dish that is the favourite of the people of the Maremma for generations and a symbol of making a virtue out of necessity. The must-have ingredient for all recipes is the extra virgin olive oil from Maremma. On the contrary, there isn’t any one culinary recipe of the traditional dishes because every housewife has their own and uses seasonal organic products from their own garden and cheese from their own flock, which can be savoured at leisure.
Stretching between the provinces of Livorno and Grosseto along the coast in south-western Tuscany, Maremma covers one-quarter part of the Tuscany. The place is an imperative destination to visit and enjoy because of its varied geographical features such as pleasant sea, marvellous hills and mountains that blend together and colour of its surroundings in extraordinary nature’s works of art. Everything blended so beautifully that a trip to Maremma and staying at one of the Tuscany villas will be a lifetime memoir.
The region of Maremma is finely divided into three parts which are equally important and consists of the central part, the northern part and the southern part. The central part of Maremma itself covers the area of Grosseto and its surroundings. The area’s history is well depicted in Grosseto’s cathedral, Senese Castle and Medici-era walls. In fact, many traces of its glorious past can be found in the surroundings, including the remarkable archaeological site of the Etruscan city of Roselle. The southern Maremma borders Lazio is the most representative area of the whole region. The inner area is famous for its tufo rock and its Etruscan roots, as attested by the towns of Pitigliano, Sorano and Sovana. Nearby are the famous thermal baths of Saturnia. The northern Maremma covers most of the province of Livorno and includes the Metalliferous hill area and the area between there and the Gulf of Follonica. The most representative spot of this wonderful landscape is Massa Marittima, a small yet important medieval city that has a remarkable cathedral and a massive castle. The place demonstrates the beautiful shades of the history of Etruscans perfectly blended with the art of the region which can be seen in the cathedrals, churches, castles, fortresses and watchtowers. Thus, it would be a wonderful trip to Maremma in Tuscany. You would immensely enjoy the beauty of the landscapes along with the history and art of the region. Your stay at Tuscany villas will further add pleasure to your trip to Maremma.