City of origins etrusche, but with Roman elements and medioevali, the doors of Grosseto it is found to, in direction in Siena.
Note for his wide surrounded building, famous example of defensive architecture etrusca, preserve rests of the primitive city, which him sovappose the Roman city doing one of it of the most interesting archaeological centers in Tuscany. The archaeological excavations can have been visited since 8,30 up to the sunset.
The place deserves a visit because it allows us to see the almost complete plant of an ancient city you/they can be admired, in fact, the notable rests stratified of the city etrusco-Roman, that preserve a splendid surrounded building in polygonal work and rests of residences etrusche, besides the monumental complex of imperial (the Hole and his/her buildings, the Domus of the mosaics, with the sophisticated thermal plant, the well preserved amphitheater, the Thermal baths and the roads basolate with the furrows of the wheels of the wagons) epoch further to some statues. The city as some all the "lucumonie" etrusche, was built, beginning from the end of the age of the Iron, on a high ground that, for the sight and its distance from the coast, he/she offered great safety. The scarce news doesn't allow us to know exactly the territorial consistence of its dominion, that extended him also on the near Vetulonia.
The period "late etrusco" it marked the maximum expansion of his/her inhabited area and the maximum flowering both in the commerce and in the politics, but in 294 to C. the city was conquered by the Romans (as Livio brings: two thousand were the Etruschis killed around the boundaries, as many the prisoners and very serious the conditions of the surrender) and Gnawed it was her integrated in the great Empire Romano. The life of the city continued, even if brims to mostly develop in the lowland, next to the great arteries that favored the moves and the transports. With the end of the empire Romano, Gnawed her, already center of a diocese, in the V° century became the center medieval more main point of the area; his/her decadence and his/her abandonment it was then gradual and parallel to emerge some new center of Grosseto, that inherited the Episcopalian center of it in 1138.
