Maremma Regional Park

About 25 km south of Grosseto, the Maremma Regional Park covers 9,000 hectares of protected coastline, Uccellina Mountains, and wetlands. It's the wildest stretch of the Tuscan coast — no hotels, no beachside restaurants, just trails through macchia scrubland and maritime pine forest, ending at beaches that are genuinely empty outside summer.

The park can only be entered on guided walks or along marked trails with a day pass. Trails vary in difficulty; the cliff path above the sea is the most dramatic. Wildlife includes wild boar, deer, porcupine, and numerous raptors. The Uccellina watchtowers, medieval coastal defences scattered along the cliffs, are among the most atmospheric ruins in Tuscany.

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A story
The park preserves the last stretch of the wild Maremma coast as it was before the 20th century — a landscape of macchia scrubland, pine forest, wetland, and cliff. For most of the 19th century this stretch of coastline was malarial and barely inhabited; it was only after major land reclamation works in the 1930s that people moved in. The park was established in 1975 specifically to prevent further development.