Marsiliana, known also as Marsiliana d'Albegna, is a village in

Tuscany Tuscany ( ; it, Toscana ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence (''Firenze''). Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, art ...

, central

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, administratively a

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of the

comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...

of Manciano,

province of Grosseto The province of Grosseto ( it, links=no, provincia di Grosseto) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Grosseto. As of 2013 the province had a total population of 225,098 people. Geography The Province of Gros ...

. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to 246.

Geography

Marsiliana is about 40 km from

Grosseto Grosseto () is a city and ''comune'' in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Province of Grosseto. The city lies from the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Maremma, at the centre of an alluvial plain on the Ombrone river. It is the m ...

and 18 km from Manciano. It is situated in southern

Maremma The Maremma (, ; from Latin , "maritime and) is a coastal area of western central Italy, bordering the Tyrrhenian Sea. It includes much of south-western Tuscany and part of northern Lazio. It was formerly mostly marshland, often malarial, bu ...

, along the ''Maremmana'' Regional Road halfway between Manciano and the

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Albinia Albinia is a town in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Orbetello, province of Grosseto, in the Tuscan Maremma. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to Albegna The Albegna is a river in southern Tuscany, the sources of which are located in province of Grosseto on the southern side of Monte Buceto, the southwestern part of the volcanic cone of Mount Amiata, along with the northern side of Monte Aquilai ...

History

The territory of Marsiliana is known for the presence of

Etruscan __NOTOC__ Etruscan may refer to: Ancient civilization *The Etruscan language, an extinct language in ancient Italy *Something derived from or related to the Etruscan civilization **Etruscan architecture **Etruscan art **Etruscan cities ** Etrusca ...

archaeological sites: the most important one is the area of ''Banditella'', where a necropolis of more than one hundred tombs (8th-6th century BC) was discovered in 1908. The village developed at the foot of the hill after the ''Riforma fondiaria'' (

land reform Land reform is a form of agrarian reform involving the changing of laws, regulations, or customs regarding land ownership. Land reform may consist of a government-initiated or government-backed property redistribution, generally of agricultural ...

) in the 1950s.

Buildings

* ''Maria Regina del Mondo'', main parish church of the village, it was built in 1959 and designed by Carlo Boccianti.Parish of Marsiliana
Diocese of Sovana-Pitigliano-Orbetello, official site. * Farm of Marsiliana (12th century), old castle built by the

Aldobrandeschi The Aldobrandeschi were an Italian noble family from southern Tuscany. Overview Of probable Lombard origin, they appear in history as counts in the 9th century. The first known count was Hildebrand II (857). Their possession extended to what i ...

, it was then held by the

Republic of Siena The Republic of Siena ( it, Repubblica di Siena, la, Respublica Senensis) was a historic state consisting of the city of Siena and its surrounding territory in Tuscany, central Italy. It existed for over 400 years, from 1125 to 1555. During its e ...

and then by the

Medici The House of Medici ( , ) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici, in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century. The family originated in the Muge ...

s. It became a property of the

Corsini family The House of Corsini is the name of a Florentine princely family. From Poggibonsi to the 14th century The Corsinis originated from the areas of Poggibonsi and from the “Pesa” valley, which are between Siena and Florence. They arrived in Flor ...

from

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

in the 18th century and they transformed the building into a fortified farmhouse. Next to the farm there is the chapel of ''Sant'Antonio Abate''.Giuseppe Guerrini, ''Torri e castelli della provincia di Grosseto'', Siena, Nuova Immagine Editrice, 1999. * Castle of Stachilagi (12th century), ancient fortification built by the Aldobrandeschi, it's now in ruins.

References

Bibliography

Emanuele Repetti Emanuele Repetti (1776-1852) was an Italian historian and naturalist who wrote extensively on the history of Tuscany. He was born in Carrara.Italian Institute of Archaeology, University of Siena http://www.archeogr.unisi.it/repetti/paginerep/bior ...

,
Marsiliana
�, ''Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana'', 1833–1846. * Antonio Minto, ''Marsiliana d'Albegna. Le scoperte archeologiche del principe don Tommaso Corsini'', Florence, 1921. * Andrea Camilli, Alice del Re, Carmine Sanchirico, Alessandra Pecci, Lucia Salvini, Elena Santoro, Andrea Zifferero, ''Evoluzione e caratteri del paesaggio protostorico ed etrusco a Marsiliana d'Albegna (Manciano, GR)'', in Nuccia Negroni Catacchio, ''Paesaggi reali e paesaggi mentali. Ricerche e scavi. Preistoria e protostoria in Etruria'', Atti VIII, Milan, 2008, pp. 195–210.

Geography

History

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References

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