Grosseto, a Real Tuscan Surprise!, Grosseto, Italy
I did not expect Grosseto would have been so enveloping and relaxing.聽To be honest, I really did not expect anything鈥�
Last week I took advantage of the appointment with the #BTO Preview聽to treat聽me a day in Grosseto, Tuscany only town that did not know.
I left the trolley at the hotel and run out to discover the ancient town and I fell in love with it at first sight.
Entering the old town I stopped an indefinite time at the beginning of Corso Carducci, just to look around and I felt at home. People talking, grandmothers at the windows making recommendations to grandchildren playing in the street, ringing bells and bikes, bikes everywhere. I would have loved so much to have a bike too in order to enjoy this quiet town like聽a regular guest would do鈥�
Despite the intermittent rain I opted for a walk along the city walls, getting lost to look at the roofs of the town in the background listening to聽the bustle of the inhabitants, until the Cassero Senese, a defensive bulwark of the fourteenth century, that the Medici integrated into the bastion transforming the whole in a proper military citadel, with lots of storage for weapons and food, hospital, accommodation for the garrison, gunboats and a beautiful parade ground in the center of which still stand an聽octagonal well. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).
Last week I took advantage of the appointment with the #BTO Preview聽to treat聽me a day in Grosseto, Tuscany only town that did not know.
I left the trolley at the hotel and run out to discover the ancient town and I fell in love with it at first sight.
Entering the old town I stopped an indefinite time at the beginning of Corso Carducci, just to look around and I felt at home. People talking, grandmothers at the windows making recommendations to grandchildren playing in the street, ringing bells and bikes, bikes everywhere. I would have loved so much to have a bike too in order to enjoy this quiet town like聽a regular guest would do鈥�
Despite the intermittent rain I opted for a walk along the city walls, getting lost to look at the roofs of the town in the background listening to聽the bustle of the inhabitants, until the Cassero Senese, a defensive bulwark of the fourteenth century, that the Medici integrated into the bastion transforming the whole in a proper military citadel, with lots of storage for weapons and food, hospital, accommodation for the garrison, gunboats and a beautiful parade ground in the center of which still stand an聽octagonal well. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).
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Guide Name: Grosseto, a Real Tuscan Surprise!
Guide Location: Italy » Grosseto
Guide Type: Self-guided Walking Tour (Article (B))
Author: Silvia Moggia
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Sight(s) Featured in This Guide:
Guide Location: Italy » Grosseto
Guide Type: Self-guided Walking Tour (Article (B))
Author: Silvia Moggia
Read it on Author's Website:
Sight(s) Featured in This Guide:
- Corso Carducci
- Cassero Senese
- Museum of Natural History of the Maremma
- Palazzo Aldobrandeschi
- Church of San Francesco
- Hotel Airone
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