Spighe Verdi
Spighe Verdi in Tuscany
7 towns
Tuscany holds 7 Spighe Verdi sites inside our catalogue. They are in the Grosseto, Livorno, and Siena provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Massa Marittima, Grosseto, and Castagneto Carducci. 4 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Massa Marittima
Province: Grosseto · 380 m
A medieval mining town at 380 meters, free commune from 1225 to 1337, whose cathedral holds the relics of San Cerbone.
- Written about. No. 49.
Grosseto
Province: Grosseto · 10 m
The Maremma capital on the Ombrone river, ringed by hexagonal Medici walls of 1564 that now serve as the city's public park.
- Written about. No. 37.
Castagneto Carducci
Province: Livorno · 194 m
A hilltop borgo at 194 meters above the Costa degli Etruschi, renamed for the poet Carducci in 1907 and the home of Bolgheri and Sassicaia.
- Written about. No. 30.
Castellina in Chianti
Province: Siena · 578 m
A Chianti hill town at 578 meters on the watershed between the Arno and the Ombrone, with an Etruscan tumulus, a Brunelleschi-reinforced wall and a covered medieval walkway around its edge.
- Written about. No. 48.
Castiglione della Pescaia
Province: Grosseto · 4 m
A Maremma seaside town under an Aragonese castle, with the Vetulonia necropolis behind it and Italo Calvino buried on the hill.
- Written about. No. 52.
Orbetello
Province: Grosseto · 3 m
A town on a narrow isthmus at the center of its own lagoon, fortified by Spain in 1557.
Bibbona
Province: Livorno · 85 m
An Etruscan-origin hill village above the Costa degli Etruschi, with a Romanesque parish church and a Lorraine-built coastal fort eight kilometers down the road at Marina di Bibbona.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Varese Ligure
Province: La Spezia
The Val di Vara's medieval seat at 358 meters, the first European municipality with ISO 14001 certification, anchor of Italy's largest organic district.
Castel di Tora
Province: Rieti
A village of 273 on Lago del Turano at 607 meters, with an eleventh-century polygonal tower and a ghost promontory called Antuni.
Montagnana
Province: Padova
A walled town on the lower Padova plain, its two kilometers of ramparts studded with 24 hexagonal towers.
Soncino
Province: Cremona
A walled borgo on the Oglio, held by a brick Sforza fortress and a printing house that once worked in Hebrew.
Ventotene
Province: Latina
The smaller of the inhabited Pontine Islands, a flat three-kilometer tuff platform southeast of Ponza.