Fortified Villages of the Lower Val d’Ombrone

In the Maremma Toscana

Campagnatico

The Maremma Grossetana offers, in addition to landscapes of suggestive beauty and, along the coast, uncontaminated seas and large sandy beaches and promontories that rise on crystalline water, urban structures with an ancient history, the one that preceded the Sienese domination, the one managed by the strong and powerful families of counts, from whom Siena took away piece by piece the power over lands and castles. And so here we are, traveling partly along the valley of one of the longest rivers in Tuscany, a fertile valley, rich in history, which preserves ancient vestiges and villages and works of art and landscape treasures: the valley of the Sienese Ombrone and more precisely the castles or rather the walled villages and fortresses that still preserve their medieval structure intact.

Il castello di Batignano

Il castello di Campagnatico

Il castello di Civitella Marittima

Il castello di Montorsaio

Il castello di Roccastrada

I castelli di Casenovole e Monte Antico lungo la “Leopoldina”

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The Battle of Pistoia (62 BC)

…defeat and death of Lucius Sergius Catilina

by Alessandro Ferrini

Particolare dell’affresco di Cesare Maccari raffigurante Catilina (Roma, Palazzo Madama, 1880)

Lucius Sergius Catilina was born in Rome in 108 BC, at the beginning of a century tormented by wars and civil strife that marked the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Principate.

Descended from a noble and ancient Roman family, nobili genere natus, – as the historian Sallust defines him – fuit magna vi et animi et corporis, sed ingenio malo pravoque, after having tried to be elected consul in the ranks of the populares twice without success, opposed in every way by the optimates and the machinations of Cicero, in 63 he decided to organize a conspiracy and attempt a coup d’état to seize power. The conspiracy was discovered by Cicero, then consul in office, many conspirators were arrested and sentenced to death but Catilina managed to escape towards Etruria …

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in the Tuscan Maremma

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