What is Manciano known for?

Etruscan frazione with sulphurous hot springs averaging 37 degrees Celsius, used since Roman times and free to enter at the Cascate del Mulino. Square keep on Aldobrandeschi foundations, built by Siena in 1424 during the brief occupation of the southern Maremma. Historic market town for the Albegna and Fiora valleys, wine and olive oil from low hills, wild boar and pecorino from the surrounding pastures.

When is the best time to visit Manciano?

Apr–Oct. April through June and September into October are the months Manciano shows the southern Maremma at its best, the territory dry but green, the Saturnia pools warm against cool mornings. The Sagra dell'Anatra runs in mid-August. July and August are hot at 444 meters but easier than the coast; afternoons in the centro storico empty between two and six. November through March is quiet, the Maremma roads almost deserted, and Saturnia in winter steam against a cold sky is the photograph everyone wants. The Cascate del Mulino run free year-round and are at their most striking under frost.

Manciano is a comune in the province of Grosseto, Tuscany region of Italy, about 123 kilometers from Terni.

How do I get to Manciano?

From Terni, Manciano is roughly 123 km by road.

Tuscany · Grosseto

Manciano

A market town in the southern Maremma, with a Sienese fortress of 1424 and the thermal frazione of Saturnia in its territory.

Known for

SATURNIA
Etruscan frazione with sulphurous hot springs averaging 37 degrees Celsius, used since Roman times and free to enter at the Cascate del Mulino.
ROCCA SENESE
Square keep on Aldobrandeschi foundations, built by Siena in 1424 during the brief occupation of the southern Maremma.
MAREMMA MARKET
Historic market town for the Albegna and Fiora valleys, wine and olive oil from low hills, wild boar and pecorino from the surrounding pastures.

When to visit

Best · Apr–Oct

Best
Hot or crowded
Quiet
Mostly closed

The festa: Leonardo di Noblac, 6 November

Why come

Manciano sits on a hill in the southern Maremma grossetana, with a 360-degree view that runs from Monte Amiata north to the Tyrrhenian coast. The Aldobrandeschi held the original stronghold from the twelfth century. Siena occupied the town between 1419 and 1455 and built the Rocca that still dominates the centro storico, a square keep with battlements on a shoe-base.

After 1455 it returned to local rule and passed eventually to the Medici Grand Duchy. The comune is large by Toscana standards and includes some of the best-known places of the southern Maremma: Saturnia, the Etruscan town built around its sulphurous hot springs, and Montemerano, a small walled borgo on the road to the Lago di Bolsena. The Albegna and Fiora valleys, which the town once served as a regional market, still meet at its foot. Wine, olive oil and wild boar work the territory in roughly the order they sit on a Maremmano menu.

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Maremma | The Last Cowboys of Tuscany

Everyone driving from Florence down to Rome crosses the Maremma without noticing, because there is nothing on that stretch to make them slow down. The hills give out. The cypresses stop. What opens up instead is flat open country, wheat and grass running off to a few low rises, the least Tuscan-looking part of Tuscany, a landscape you would call dull if you were being honest and which most guidebooks solve by leaving out.

From the Manciano letter, July 2026

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What to see

Rocca Aldobrandesca
Sienese fortress of 1424 on Aldobrandeschi foundations, square keep, walls with battlements and a solid shoe-base, dominating the centro storico.
Saturnia
Etruscan town and frazione south of Manciano, with medieval walls, remains of a Roman road and the sulphurous hot springs used since antiquity.
Montemerano
Small walled borgo east of Manciano, three concentric circles of streets and a fifteenth-century Madonna della Gattaiola in the parish church.
Chiesa di San Leonardo
Romanesque parish church inside the walls, rebuilt in the seventeenth century, with a fifteenth-century baptismal font in travertine.
Museo di Preistoria e Protostoria
Prehistory museum on the Albegna and Fiora valleys, with finds from Paleolithic through Etruscan occupation across the comune territory.

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Living here

Population 7,052
Off the beaten pathi
Pharmacy in town
High school within a 30-minute drive
Nearest airport Rome, 2 h 23 min drive
Regional capital Firenze, 3 h 6 min drive

Thermal baths in town: Cascate del Mulino, Terme di Saturnia.

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The numbers

Elevation: 444 m
Population: 7,052
Surface area: 372.51 km²

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