Marina di Grosseto

Marina di Grosseto is a hamlet ( frazione ) of the provincial capital Grosseto in southern Tuscany. It is 12 km west of the city in a wide bay on the Tyrrhenian Sea and is a popular seaside resort on the Big Spartans and foreign guests.

History

Although the Southern Tuscany was Etruscan home country, the history of the place is only two centuries old.

Today's Bay between Grosseto and Castiglione Ombrone estuary in the Natural Park of Maremma in ancient times was a great salt lake ( Lacus Prelius ), which silted up in the Middle Ages and marshy. The unhealthy climate in which malaria epidemic prevented until the late 18th / 19th century, the settlement of people.

1793, when the still largely uninhabited area politically part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Ferdinand III was the Habsburgs. a fortified tower built. At that time there was already a small hamlet of San Rocco. It is named after St. Roch, because in Marseille in 1720, the plague had occurred and this small coast guard to monitor incoming ships understood as a defensive alliance against the introduction of the disease. After Ferdinand's successor Leopold II, the partial draining of the marshes in the context of a broadly drawn Program ( la bonifica ) had succeeded populated successively fishing the wide sandy stretch of coast that is now planted on the behalf of the Grand Duke pine forest strips as well as in the hinterland of hills with wild rosemary, gorse and other scrub- lined.

Tourism

The conversion into a tourist resort with hotels and apartment complexes, apartments, campsites, bars and restaurants occurred in the second half of the 20th century. After recovering from the Second World War, when the malaria was finally eradicated, searched the city of Grosseto youth and families with children that was not previously possible carefree swimming pleasure. The development quickly evolved into urban acting proportions. Gradually lured Marina di Grosseto also about regional summer guests and was frequented on weekends by short -term tourists especially from Siena, Arezzo, Florence and Rome.

Towards the end of the 20th century, the rapidly grown infrastructure was increasingly criticized by environmentalists. The tourist needs have changed, many of the large apartment complexes are now empty, alternative agri-tourism offerings in the hills of the hinterland are on the rise. The conditions for the camping operations have become more stringent, for example, wild camping is no longer allowed in the pine forest. The tourism sector strives to German and English tourists and advertises the location of the place within the Etruscan archeological sites, the historical and art-historical outstanding Tuscan city-states (Pisa, Siena, Florence ) and the Maremma nature reserves. Due to the road layout and traffic density is to these attractions yet to be included as a time- intensive Directions whose sheer geographic proximity might suggest.

The Bay of Grosseto was honored by the Foundation for Environmental Education in Europe ( feee ) due to its excellent water quality with the "Blue Flag ".

Outside the bathing season almost all facilities are closed. Terms like ghost town / abandoned city have fallen into experience reports for Marina di Grosseto in winter.