( province of Grosseto) is a town with 8,000 inhabitants, in 2008, in the heart of Tuscan Maremma, is the capital about 22 km.
For the quality of the sea and beaches, environmental care and equipment is considered an exclusive tourist destination, awarded in 2005 with 5 sails Legambiente first positioning beach resort for tourism and environmental quality in the annual ranking of Legambiente and Touring Club , for the same reason the territory of Castiglione della Pescaia is also known as "Little Switzerland" or "the Switzerland of the Maremma.
Castiglione was an important port since the Etruscan and Roman times. Around the year One Thousand the territory of Castiglione della Pescaia was under the control of Pisani, and thereafter, the country began a period of prosperity until he became a free city in the Middle thirteenth century. During the fifteenth Castiglione della Pescaia was first conquered by Doctors , then came occupied by the Aragonese for several years in the middle of the century and eventually came under the control of Piccolomini Siena . In mid-sixteenth the country was temporarily conquered by Spaniards before joining the Grand Duchy of Tuscany .
The popular seaside resort is dominated by the center located on the promontory that ends with the medieval castle on the highest point. In the historical center of several buildings are kept clear medieval origins with the characteristics of stone masonry structures. The sixteenth-century Church of St. John the Baptist is located in the upper part of the country and has a bell tower rests on a circular tower, inside the church are the relics of St. William of Aquitaine . The eighteenth-century Church of Santa Maria del Giglio, built into a bastion of the medieval walls, guards inside a painting by the Baroque period. Just outside the town center, heading east along the bed of the river Bruna where many boats are moored, you can reach some Roman ruins. Across the river can be seen the eighteenth-century Red House, built by Ximenes during the reclamation of unhealthy swamp, which later led to the final disappearance of Lake Prile that extended on the plain between Castiglione della Pescaia and Grosseto: primitive aspects of the environment have come down to us and are included in the Natural Reserve of Diaccia Botrona.
Castiglione borders the northern part of the Natural Park of Maremma in its territory and has numerous areas of environmental interest, including the area of \u200b\u200bprotected wetland Diaccia Botrona .
The area is also of considerable archaeological and historical interest, a few yards from Roselle and halfway between the other two colonies Etruscan Populonia and Vetulonia , which is now a village of Castiglione.
Part of the Network Museum of the Maremma "the Archaeological Museum "I. Falchi" Vetulonia and the Museum of the Casa Rossa Ximenes media.
