Santa Caterina 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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Roccalbegna Roccalbegna is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Grosseto in the Italian region Tuscany, located about south of Florence and about east of Grosseto. History Roccalbegna was a fief of the Aldobrandeschi in the Middle Ages; later it ...

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, in the southern area of

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. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to 110.Popolazione residente - Grosseto (dettaglio loc. abitate) - Censimento 2001

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Santa Caterina 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 3 km from

Main sights

* ''Santa Caterina'', main parish of the village, it was built in the 1960s. * ''Santa Caterina delle Ruote'', little chapel of 16th century. * Museum of ''Focarazza'', ethnografic museum about rural life and the traditional fire ritual of Santa Caterina.

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