Roccastrada

The picturesque Roccastrada stands on a plug of igneous rock and makes the most of its enviable position, with a sweeping panorama over the surrounding plain, and a view of Monte Amiata in the distance.

Built on this magmatic hill for defensive reasons, Roccastrada stands 475 metres above sea level in the park of the Colline Metallifere Grossetane, in northern Maremma. In the medieval period it was an important centre for silver and copper mining, and it grew and developed under the rule of the Aldobrandeschi family until the fourteenth century. Thereafter it came under Sienese rule, before falling into Medici hands in 1555.