Lago Boracifero 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 Monterotondo Marittimo,

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, in the area of

Colline Metallifere The Colline Metallifere (), or the Metalliferous Hills ("Metal-bearing Hills"), are a mountain-hill group in the Tuscany, Tuscan Antiapennine, in central Italy. They occupy the central-western part of Tuscany, divided between the province of Liv ...

. At the time of the 2001 census, its population was 51.Popolazione residente - Grosseto (dettaglio loc. abitate) - Censimento 2001
,

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. Lago Boracifero is about 72 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 7 km from Monterotondo Marittimo, and it lies on the lake of the same name, known for its

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Main sights

* The geothermal power plant, with its wells, pipes for steam, and the buildings of the workers' village, dating back to the early 20th century. Their task was to transform

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produced by the lake into

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. * Church of ''Madonna di Montenero'', situated in the hamlet of ''Fattoria del Lago'', it was built in 1853. * ''Biancane'' Natural Park, a protected natural area where there is the presence of different types of geothermal manifestations such as geysers,

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s and steam emissions from the soil.

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Bibliography

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

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