Marsiliana, known also as Marsiliana d'Albegna, 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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Manciano Manciano is a town and ''comune'' in the southern part of the province of Grosseto, Tuscany, central Italy. It has a population of about 7,200. Manciano is southwest of Pitigliano and northeast of Orbetello. History Manciano was once a fairl ...

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 ...

. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to 246.

Geography

Marsiliana is about 40 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 18 km from

. It is situated in southern

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, along the ''Maremmana'' Regional Road halfway between Manciano and the

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Albinia Albinia is a town in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Orbetello, province of Grosseto, in the Tuscan Maremma. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to Albegna The Albegna is a river in southern Tuscany, the sources of which are located in province of Grosseto on the southern side of Monte Buceto, the southwestern part of the volcanic cone of Mount Amiata, along with the northern side of Monte Aquilaia, ...

History

The territory of Marsiliana is known for the presence of

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archaeological sites: the most important one is the area of ''Banditella'', where a necropolis of more than one hundred tombs (8th-6th century BC) was discovered in 1908. The village developed at the foot of the hill after the ''Riforma fondiaria'' (

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) in the 1950s.

Buildings

* ''Maria Regina del Mondo'', main parish church of the village, it was built in 1959 and designed by Carlo Boccianti.Parish of Marsiliana
Diocese of Sovana-Pitigliano-Orbetello, official site. * Farm of Marsiliana (12th century), old castle built by the

Aldobrandeschi The Aldobrandeschi family was an Italian noble family from southern Tuscany. Overview Of probable Lombard origin, they appear in history as counts in the 9th century. The first known count was Hildebrand II (857). Their possession extended t ...

, it was then held by the

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and then by the

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s. It became a property of the

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from

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in the 18th century and they transformed the building into a fortified farmhouse. Next to the farm there is the chapel of ''Sant'Antonio Abate''.Giuseppe Guerrini, ''Torri e castelli della provincia di Grosseto'', Siena, Nuova Immagine Editrice, 1999. * Castle of Stachilagi (12th century), ancient fortification built by the Aldobrandeschi, it's now in ruins.

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 ...

,
Marsiliana
�, ''Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana'', 1833–1846. * Antonio Minto, ''Marsiliana d'Albegna. Le scoperte archeologiche del principe don Tommaso Corsini'', Florence, 1921. * Andrea Camilli, Alice del Re, Carmine Sanchirico, Alessandra Pecci, Lucia Salvini, Elena Santoro, Andrea Zifferero, ''Evoluzione e caratteri del paesaggio protostorico ed etrusco a Marsiliana d'Albegna (Manciano, GR)'', in Nuccia Negroni Catacchio, ''Paesaggi reali e paesaggi mentali. Ricerche e scavi. Preistoria e protostoria in Etruria'', Atti VIII, Milan, 2008, pp. 195–210.

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References

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