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Dirt Road to Batignano – View of Poggio Petriccio loop from Batignano

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Mountain biking trails

Italy

Tuscany

Grosseto

Dirt Road to Batignano – View of Poggio Petriccio loop from Batignano

Moderate

4.9

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Dirt Road to Batignano – View of Poggio Petriccio loop from Batignano

02:29

24.8km

530m

Mountain biking

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: June 13, 2026

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Includes segments that go up or down a series of steps

You may need to carry your bike.

After 478 m for 14 m

After 24.5 km for 14 m

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266 m

Casa della Memoria, Batignano

Highlight • Historical Site

Batignano is a characteristic medieval village, still today you can admire the remains of the city walls, the keep, the towers, the doors and a three-arched loggia. Like many other fiefdoms in the area, it belonged to the Aldobrandeschi family.
The Walls of Batignano constitute the defensive system of the village, part of the municipality of Grosseto.
A first city wall was built in Batignano during the 12th century to defend the noble area located in the upper part of the town.
As time passed, the center increasingly expanded towards the concentric plateau located at a lower level than the pre-existing noble area; once this process was completed, there was the need to build a further defensive device that would protect the less ancient part.
The construction of the new walls, more external than the pre-existing ones, continued between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and, once completed, they took on a roughly elliptical perimeter.
In the following centuries, the Walls of Batignano followed the fate of the rest of the village, undergoing periods of decline followed by renovation and urban redevelopment works, which led, among other things, to incorporating some sections of curtain wall into the perimeter walls exteriors of residential buildings.
The Walls of Batignano can be divided into two distinct concentric circles, an older internal one and a relatively more modern external one.
The internal walls, trapezoidal in shape, have been almost incorporated into the external walls of the buildings located in the upper part of the centre, among which the ancient keep and a turreted building are recognisable.
The external wall, roughly elliptical in shape, entirely delimits the village, alternating some sections of curtain which have perfectly preserved the original medieval characteristics (western bank of the circle) with others which are incorporated into the external perimeter walls of some buildings.
Two doors open along the external wall (to the north-east and south-west), while a tower rises along the western bank.

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385 m

Parish Church of San Martino

Highlight • Religious Site

In the historic center of Batignano, near Porta Grossetana, there is the church of San Martino, an interesting example of a sacred building dating back to the 12th century.
The church was partly built using early medieval architectural elements (dating back to the 8th century), coming from the spoils of the oldest church in Roselle and visible on the wall to the left of the steps leading to the church. Other finds from Roselle, such as capitals, columns and fragments of large terracotta jars, were used to build a portico on the other side of the street. The interior of the church was decorated with numerous frescoes from the 15th century, of which some scattered fragments remain.

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1.59 km

Dirt Road to Batignano

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Beautiful dirt road leading to Batignano.

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3.51 km

La Scagliata

Forest

6.59 km

View of Montorsaio

Highlight • Viewpoint

The village of Montorsaio is a small jewel of defensive architecture: with its elongated shape it is the prototype of the hill village with its ancient houses arranged in concentric circles and perched to defend its proud cistern and the ancient Sienese keep which, although in ruins, still bears witness to its importance. The very tenacious forteto (name given in Maremma to the Mediterranean scrub) climbs up to the edge of the town.

Here, mushrooms, chestnuts, game in abundance and panoramic points where you can enjoy a picture-postcard Maremma represent the main elements of a splendid nature. A fief of the Salimbeni and even before that of other noble families, Montorsaio was for centuries an outpost of the Sienese Republic: its legacy is a very refined Madonna with Child by Sano di Pietro preserved in a copy in the church of Santi Cerbone and Michele and, in the Oratory of the Crucifix, a wooden sculpture of the Virgin attributed to the school of Mariano d'Agnolo Romanelli. The ruins of the Convento della Nave are also mysterious, where legends about licentious friars and shameful killings make the atmosphere quite singular.

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8.72 km