Prata is a village in

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, central

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, administratively a

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of the

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Massa Marittima Massa Marittima (Latin: ''Massa Veternensis'') is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Grosseto, southern Tuscany, Italy, 49 km NNW of Grosseto. There are mineral springs, mines of iron, mercury, lignite and copper, with foundries, iron ...

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, in the area of the

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. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to 559.Popolazione residente - Grosseto (dettaglio loc. abitate) - Censimento 2001

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Prata is about 48 km from

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

and 12 km from

, and it is a small medieval village (12th century) situated on a hill of Colline Metallifere.

Main sights

* ''Santa Maria Assunta'', main parish church of the village, it was originally built as a

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in the 12th century. * Ruins of ''Cassero'', a 13th-century fortress.

References

Bibliography

* Aldo Mazzolai, ''Guida della Maremma. Percorsi tra arte e natura'', Le Lettere, Florence, 1997.

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