San Donato is a village in

Tuscany Tuscany ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of 3,660,834 inhabitants as of 2025. The capital city is Florence. Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its in ...

, central Italy, administratively a

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of the

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Orbetello Orbetello is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Grosseto (Tuscany), Italy. It is located about south of Grosseto, on the Lagoon of Orbetello, which is home to an important Natural Reserve. History Orbetello was an ancient Etruscan set ...

province of Grosseto The province of Grosseto () is a Provinces of Italy, 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 Grosseto completely ...

, in the Tuscan

Maremma The Maremma (, ; from Latin , "maritime and) is a geographical region located between Lazio and Tuscany, Central Italy. The biggest city is Grosseto. The region, with a long history, is traditionally populated by the '' butteri'', mounted c ...

. At the time of the 2011 census its population amounted to 18. San Donato is about 30 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 15 km from

. The village was founded in the late 1950s as a result of the ''riforma fondiaria'' (

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) in Maremma. It is divided into the hamlets of ''San Donato Centro'' and ''San Donato Vecchio''. It is known for the ''Sagra della Panzanella'', a festival held every summer since 1999 to celebrate the Tuscan dish

panzanella ''Panzanella'' () or ''panmolle'' () is a Tuscan and Umbrian chopped salad of soaked stale bread, onions and tomatoes that is popular in the summer. It often includes cucumbers, sometimes basil and is dressed with olive oil and vinegar. It is ...

Main sights

* ''San Donato'', main parish church in the village, it was designed by engineer

Ernesto Ganelli Ernesto Ganelli (24 February 1901 – 9 September 1985) was an Italian civil engineer who designed various public and religious buildings in Tuscany. Biography Born in Alessandria, Ganelli graduated in civil engineering at the Sapienza Universit ...

and consecrated in 1961. *

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archaeological sites of San Donato Centro, San Giovanni, Volta di Rote and Doganella.

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* * {{authority control Frazioni of Orbetello

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