Grosseto artistic itineraries

Route From Piazza Dante to Cassero

Piazza Dante
This is the main square in Grosseto, the shape was inspired by a range Campo Siena hosts inside the cathedral, the Palazzo del Comune, Palazzo della Provincia in the center and the monument to Leopoldo II of Lorena, the last Grand Duke of Tuscany, particularly by grossetana popular for being the first ruler to have attempted to improve the fate of a land at all troubled.

Duomo
Built on the remains of a primitive religious building starting in 1294, the building underwent a series of modifications until the nineteenth, a period which dates back to the speeches in the Neo-Romanesque style facade dichromate-white and pink ones in the dismantling of Baroque altars that were against the wall. Among the works you can see immediately upon the beautiful sixteenth-century marble font, full of quotations from such festoons and dolphins ridden by putti. Through the aisles you can see also the monumental baptismal font by Antonio Ghini, a large wooden lectern dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a fifteenth century wooden polychrome crucifix, where you can see influences donatelliani. It thus reaches the area presbyteral where the seventeenth-century altar, decorated with precious marble and built on a design by Tommaso Redi. Finally, it is worth noting the so-called Madonna delle Grazie, particularly venerated image from Grosseto.

Piazza Dante and left path going Carducci, the main street of the historic center, there is the little church of St Peter.

Chiesa di San Pietro
In the heart of the old Grosseto this church is the only Romanesque building of the city and the oldest in the diocese. Already mentioned in a papal bull of 1188, probably the most remote origins, although a number of restructuring actions have altered the original appearance, for example by replacing the ancient bell tower, a seventeenth-century bell tower.

Behind the church there are three contiguous squares, Baccarini, San Francis and Independence, overlooked by some prominent buildings: the archaeological museum and art of the Maremma, Bigi of the church, the convent of Poor Clares, one of San Francisco and the complex of the former Mercy Hospital.

Archaeological museum of art and Maremma
Visiting the first rooms you can enjoy an interesting collection of archaeological finds, mostly found in the Grosseto province, including the most important piece is the bowl of alphabet bucchero Etruscan graffito of the sixth century BC Continuing you visit the museum dedicated to the production of sacred art locally. Within a large group of works are the senesi Rating Universal, painted by an artist duccesco the XIIIth century, and the exquisite Madonna of the cherries Sassetta. Of particular interest is a seventeenth-century Ilario di Casolani which appears in a view of a flying bird Grossetto that, even if partly idealized, it allows us to obtain valuable information on its urban fabric. Remarkable is finally the wealth of vestments, books and majolica.

Church of Saints and Gherardo Ludovico
Erected in 1585, belonged to the convent of Poor Clares, then became the property of their brothers and Gherardo of Saints Louis and was Bigi calling for the color of the hood of the friars. There currently is home to the Museo del laboratorio di Grosseto in which they analyzed the data thus reveal the excavations made in the area.

Chiesa di San Francesco
Located in the square, rises above a pre-existing building belonged to the Benedictines and those sold to the Franciscans. Inside filed a magnificent crucifix attributed to Duccio di Buoninsegna, in addition to various frescoes and decorations.

At this point, going via Ginori and Via Garibaldi, Via Saffi is reached where the gate is inserted in one of the bastions of the walls.

Cassero Sienna
This low but imposing tower of the complex is part of the bastion fortress and is, together with the Old Port, the only survivor of the medieval walls to the work of reconstruction undertaken in the sixteenth century Medici commissioned him but that involved changing its original appearance. As a result of this work was done that allowed an underground to monitor the door, weakness of the new fortress, while an entrance ramp leading to an underground room that joined the Cassero rest of the garrison.

After centuries in which the star Medici fortress has not been used, never support an assault is dall'Ottocento which has become the place of walking. Many trees were planted by transforming the walls in public garden, where occasionally play shows and exhibitions.