Torniella 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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Roccastrada Roccastrada is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Grosseto in the Italian region Tuscany, located about south of Florence and about north of Grosseto, between the Maremma plain and the Colline Metallifere. ''Frazioni'' The municipa ...

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. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to 323.Popolazione residente - Grosseto (dettaglio loc. abitate) - Censimento 2001

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. Torniella is about 46 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 10 km from

, and it is situated in the heart of ''La Pietra'' and ''Farma'' nature reserves.

Main sights

* ''San Giovanni Battista'' (14th century), main parish church of the village. * Church of ''Immacolata Concezione'', or ''Santi Fabiano e Sebastiano'' (17th century). * Walls of Torniella, old fortifications which surround the village since 11th century.

References

Bibliography

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

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