Etruscan Coast

The Etruscan Coast it is a vast stretch of Tuscan coast in front of the Tyrrhenian Sea which begins from Livorno and extends to the Piombino promontory for over 90 kilometres, includes the municipal territories of Bibbona, Castagneto Carducci, Cecina, Livorno, Rosignano Marittimo, Piombino, San Vincenzo, and some municipalities in the hinterland: Campiglia Marittima, Collesalvetti, Sassetta and Suvereto. The Etruscan Coast coincides (not entirely) with Livorno Maremma(historically Pisan), the northern part of the whole Maremma, called Upper Maremma Tuscany, which includes a large part of the province of Livorno and the first hills to the west of the Val di Cecina, Val di Cornia, and those on the north-western side of the Colline Metallifere within the Province of Pisa. The Etruscan Coast owes its name to the massive presence of the Etruscans who lived there starting from the 9th century BC. The presence of this ancient people is confirmed by the numerous settlements still present in many places in the Maremma, but especially in Archaeological Park of Baratti and Populonia, located between Piombino and the Gulf of Baratti, where the Etruscan city of Populonia resided, one of the twelve city-states of the Etruscan Dodecapoli together with Roselle.