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Spending your holiday in a Grosseto farmhouse offers a lucky chance to visit the wild and picturesque Maremma. Grosseto is actually the ancient capital of Maremma, the southern area of Tuscany, bordering on Latium. The region was considered "unhealthy" in the previous centuries because of its humid areas. During the XVIIIth century, thanks to Duke Leopoldo II Lorena, the marshes disappeared because Maremma was widely drained , but it still bears a wild and magnetic appeal, all of its own. That's why Maremma is now a favourite destination for tourists from all the world, heading to one of the many farmhouses located in the Grosseto area.
Today it's quite common to spend a holiday or a weekend in a farmhouse in Grosseto. But few people know that this is possible thanks to the great drainage ordered by Leopoldo II, Duke of Tuscany, in the XVIII century. Maremma was at the time particularly humid, marshes occupied a large part of the region and this situation favoured the diffusion of malaria infections (malaria is actually an Italian word meaning "bad air"). Drainage transformed Grosseto and its region into the romantic and magnificent country that everybody can admire today, preserving in any case the wild and mysterious fascination of Maremma.
A farmhouse holiday in Grosseto becomes for most people a lifelasting good memory. Maremma sightings are unique and covey a sort of magnetic and wild appeal. That's even more evident in the area of Cape Argentario, along the southern coast of Tuscany. In ancient times Cape Argentario was a little island in front of the Tuscan coast, but the debris transported by the rivers to the sea connected the island to the continent and created the famous laguna of Orbetello, a well renowned naturalistic oasis. Other main towns along the coast are Porto Santo Stefano and Porto Ercole.
A farmhouse near Grosseto is a perfect accomodation, for a nice weekend of wine tasting and discovering. Lots of factors contribute to the final results in the complex process which is "wine making": sun and wind exposure, soils, the proximity of mountains or sea coasts. Maremma offers a great variety of these factors and from this variety stems the vast range of Maremma wines: Vermentino, Ansonica, Morellino, Malvasia, Ciliegiolo, Meatico and many other traditional and modern wines. But the most important factor is indeed "tradition": the culture of winemaking traces back to the origins of civilization in this area and it's established as a shared common knowledge among all the farmers in the Grosseto area.