Ravi 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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of Gavorrano,

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. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to 263.Popolazione residente - Grosseto (dettaglio loc. abitate) - Censimento 2001

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. Ravi is about 32 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 2 km from Gavorrano, and it is situated on one of the peaks of Monte Calvo, along the road which links Gavorrano to Caldana.

History

The village was born as a property of the bishops of Roselle in the 8th century. It was formerly known as ''Ravi di Maremma''.Bruno Santi, ''Guida storico-artistica alla Maremma. Itinerari culturali nella provincia di Grosseto'', Siena, Nuova Immagine, 1995, p. 73.

Main sights

* Church of ''San Leonardo'' (15th century), main parish church of the village, it was restructured in 1810. * Church of ''Santa Caterina da Siena'' (16th century), it was built in 1571 and then transformed into warehouses and garage in 1930. * Chapel of ''Nuovo Inguardio'', modern chapel in the hamlet of ''Bivio di Ravi''. * Castle of Ravi, mentioned for the first time in a document of 784, it has been incorporated in the architectures of the old centre.

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/bi ...

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�, ''Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana'', 1833–1846. * Bruno Santi, ''Guida storico-artistica alla Maremma. Itinerari culturali nella provincia di Grosseto'', Siena, Nuova Immagine, 1995. * Giuseppe Guerrini, ''Torri e castelli della provincia di Grosseto'', Siena, Nuova Immagine, 1999. Frazioni of Gavorrano {{Grosseto-geo-stub