Grosseto 2024
European Green Pioneer of Smart Tourism
The city of Grosseto has been awarded the title of “European Green Pioneer of Smart Tourism 2024”: a prize by the European Commission to destinations that have implemented successful strategies for sustainable tourism.
Located along the Tyrrhenian coast, Grosseto boasts a thousand-years-old historical background that characterizes its monuments, the urban fabric and the beauty of the countryside surrounding the city. The municipality is situated on an immense plain, where there was once a big salt lake, called “Prile Lake”, that over the centuries dried out leaving a marshy but fertile land.
A few kilometers from the historic center, lies a green oasis of 9 thousand hectares of hills and plains, evergreen forests and brushes, ponds and marshes with a very high density of animals, including porcupines, deer, foxes and thousands of birds. The Regional Park of Maremma is a kind of rare island that still preserves the treasures of its history, such as the great abbey of San Rabano and the “butteri” (cowboys) which continue the tradition of wild farming of Maremma bovines.
