by Claudia Astarita

Holiday in Tuscany are usually associated to good food and wine, as well as nice monuments and art galleries to visits.

However, what many foreigners, and maybe many Italians don't know, is that there are parts of this beautiful region that have remained inhabited, and wild, until a few decades ago, with only a few farmers and fishermen brave enough to live there. Although both Etruscans and Romans tried to restore these areas in order to transform Tuscany in a much richer farming land, after the collapse of the Empire, Maremma turned back into "an inhospitable wilderness of marshland and stagnant pools, plagued by malarial mosquitoes". It was only in the late 18th century that the Italian government decided to invest in the improvement of this unhealthy region, completing the drainage only in 1950s.

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Fonte: This is Italy