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Extract from the Grosseto Travel Guides:
Until the mid-nineteenth century,
GROSSETO
was a malaria-ridden backwater. The draining of the marshes, however, which was finally effected under Mussolini, has transformed it into a provincial capital for the Maremma. Grosseto was rebuilt after the war with a rash of dreary condominiums and is deservedly undervisited, though you may well find yourself passing through.
Piazza Dante
, at the heart of the old town, has a quirky statue showing Leopoldo II protecting Mother Maremma and crushing the serpent malaria under his foot. The adjacent
Duomo
was started in 1294 but virtually nothing...
read the whole Grosseto Travel Guides...
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