Castiglione della Pescaia is an Italian town of 7 148 inhabitants in the province of Grosseto in Tuscany. Located in the Tuscan Maremma, due to the landscape qualities and the services offered, it is known for its seaside tourist vocation.

Castiglione della Pescaia is the first seaside resort in Tuscany for tourist presences, and has obtained important awards for its environmental quality.

In Castiglione della Pescaia, the most representative sport is roller hockey. The local team is the Castiglione Hockey Club, which plays in the Italian Serie A2 championship.

As far as football is concerned, the main team in the municipality is the Castiglionese Sports Group, registered in the First Category, it has always participated in amateur championships and plays its home games at the "Irio Valdrighi" municipal stadium. Other football clubs are the A.S.D. Libero Punta Ala FC, militant in the Third Category, and the Polisportiva Etrusca Vetulonia 1963 which is no longer active.

The Punta Ala Golf Club is located in the hamlet of Punta Ala, with an 18-hole course. Also in Punta Ala is the Yacht Club Punta Ala, often home to sailing regattas of various classes.

As far as traditions and folklore are concerned, these are some well-known events held every year:

* Palio marinaro: traditional festival held in Castiglione della Pescaia since 1952, the prize is run on rowing boats with five crew members (four rowers plus a helmsman). Originally organized in the Bruna river which crosses the town, since 2009 the race has taken place at sea, with the regatta field in front of the canal port where the arrival is located. Each boat represents one of the five districts into which the town has been divided: Castello (yellow and green), Marina (white and red), Piazza (white and green), Ponte Giorgini (white and light blue), Portaccia (yellow and red ).

* Palio di Vetulonia: traditional donkey race which takes place every first Sunday of September. The four districts into which the town is divided compete: Borgo, Colonna, San Guglielmo and Torre.

* Tournament of Palla eh!, Vetulonia: last weekend of August.


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Punta Ala, a seaside resort on the Grosseto coast, develops on the promontory north of Castiglione where a fortress had been built in the 16th century with sighting and defense functions. The modern center was born in the sixties of the twentieth century and houses a marina, numerous accommodation facilities and villas of contemporary architecture.

Riva del Sole, a tourist resort located on the coastal stretch just north of Castiglione della Pescaia, in continuity with the urban area of the town, was born as a tourist village between 1957 and 1960, thanks to the work of the Swedish after-work organization Reso to offer a vacation spot for its employees. The locality is the seat of the Swedish consulate in Italy.

Roccamare, a tourist resort located in the thick coastal pine forest in the north of the town, was born from a project to use the large pine forest to build a subdivision or "gated community" with roads and modern houses, especially villas and large blocks of flats little distance from the beach. The approximately two hundred villas were largely built starting in 1963 to a design by the architect Ugo Miglietta, and continued during the seventies and eighties by Antonio Canali.

Rocchette, a seaside resort very popular with tourists, develops north of the Roccamare pine forest, on the promontory where the historic Rocchette fort is located. The locality is known for the presence of accommodation facilities, hotels, bathing establishments and campsites, and is renowned for the clarity of its waters.




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Follows the complete list of natural areas of Castiglione della Pescaia:

* Diaccia Botrona Nature Reserve, extends over the area originally occupied by Lake Prile.
* Pineta del Tombolo, a natural area that occupies the entire sandy strip east of Castiglione della Pescaia.
* Pineta di Roccamare, a natural area that begins north of Castiglione crossing the locality of the same name up to the beach of Rocchette.
* Poggio Ballone, a hilly massif that extends throughout the northern area of the municipal territory.
* Promontory of Punta Ala, it rises with various heights overlooking the sea between the hamlet of Punta Ala and the Forte delle Rocchette.
* Padule Pian d'Alma, biotope near the hamlet of Pian d'Alma.
* Bandite di Scarlino, a hilly area which affects the north-western part of the municipal territory.
* Isolotto dello Sparviero, a small island off the coast of Punta Ala.
* Scogli Porchetti, a series of rocks outcropping in the sea between the Port of Punta Ala and the Isolotto dello Sparviero.
* Cetacean Sanctuary, a European protected marine area which also affects the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea overlooked by the entire municipal area.



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Castiglione della Pescaia (Italian pronunciation: [kastiʎˈʎoːne della peˈskaːja]), regionally simply abbreviated as Castiglione, is an ancient seaside town in the province of Grosseto, in Tuscany, central Italy. The modern city grew around a medieval 12th century fortress (Italian: castello) and a large fishery, from which it acquired its designation. Today Castiglione is a very popular tourist destination with attractions that include beaches, natural parks, biking trails, historical Etruscan archaeological sites, a panoramic mediaeval hamlet as well as the natural reserve Diaccia Botrona, a swampy humid environment of historical relevance whose endangered wildlife comprise pink flamingoes, mallards and ducks.

Despite Castiglione's popularity as a holiday destination, the town's natural surroundings - including the sea, marshes and pinewoods typical of the Maremma area - have been meticulously preserved and are today forming protected natural reserves. Notably, in 2015 Castiglione's sea was nominated as Italy's most beautiful by the national non-governmental environmentalist organisation Legambiente, which not only praised the town's seawater cleanliness but also its environmental efforts and efficient recycling. Castiglione is the most visited seaside destination in Tuscany and it ranks second among the most visited cities in the region,[15] being only preceded by Florence. In 2019, approximately 1.6 million tourists visited Castiglione reaching an historic record.[16] The town is also one of the most visited in Italy.

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