Monte Antico

Monte Antico Monte Antico Alto / Scalo
Frazione
The castle of Monte Antico
Monte Antico Location of Monte Antico in Italy
Coordinates: 42°58′58″N 11°21′49″E / 42.98278°N 11.36361°E / 42.98278; 11.36361
Country	Italy
Region	Tuscany
Province	Grosseto (GR)
Comune	Civitella Paganico
Elevation	77 m (253 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	22
Demonym	Montanticai
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	58048
Dialing code	(+39) 0564

Monte Antico is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Civitella Paganico, province of Grosseto, in the area of the Ombrone Valley. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to 33.^[1]

Monte Antico is about 35 km from Grosseto and 18 km from Civitella Marittima, and it is situated where river Ombrone and river Orcia meet.

It is composed by two hamlets, Monte Antico Alto, where it is situated the ancient castle, and Monte Antico Scalo, the modern neighbourhood near to the train station.

• Castle of Monte Antico, ancient building built in the 11th century as property of the Ardengheschi family.
• San Tommaso Apostolo, of uncertain origins, situated next to the castle, it was restructured in the 20th century in Neo-Romanesque style.
• San Tommaso, modern parish church built in 1961, it is situated near the train station in Monte Antico Scalo.
• Pieve di San Giovanni Battista in Ancaiano, destroyed.

The village is served by its own station on the Grosseto-Siena railway.

• Aldo Mazzolai, Guida della Maremma. Percorsi tra arte e natura, Le Lettere, Florence, 1997.

• Casale di Pari
• Civitella Marittima
• Dogana, Civitella Paganico
• Paganico
• Pari, Civitella Paganico

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This page was last edited on 5 January 2022, at 18:10