The Maremma (from the Spanish "marismas" - swamp) is the southern part of Tuscany. It is an ancient land, rich and fertile in Etruscan and Roman art. After the fall of the Roman Empire, however, was beginning a gradual decline through the various historical periods (the barbarian invasions, the Lombards, and in the Middle Ages, Mrs. Aldobrandeschi and then the domination of Siena and Florence) led to the swamping of lands. It was the Maremma "bitter": a wide expanse of almost uninhabited swamp, an earth and the sun burned with fever. " The rebirth of the Maremma is recent history: from the nineteenth century - with Lorraine - the reclamation has restored the land is taken away, and malaria has started restocking. This unique historical path has meant that today the Maremma is a land miraculously still intact: one large fresco counterpoint by beautiful landscapes and precious remains of an ancient history. |
