{"id":9114,"date":"2023-08-25T14:41:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T13:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maremma.name\/grosseto-and-the-coast\/grosseto\/dante-square\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T11:05:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T10:05:17","slug":"dante-square","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maremma.name\/en\/grosseto-and-the-coast\/grosseto\/dante-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Dante Square"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"\"Dante Square<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Piazza Dante Alighieri, with its natural extension of Piazza Duomo, can be considered a “summary” of Grosseto’s history.
The existence of a “platea communis” (town hall square) is recorded in Grosseto as far back as 1222; however, the entire area was profoundly restructured when the Cathedral<\/a> was erected, beginning in the late 13th century. In Sienese times we know that all the most important buildings and dwellings in the city were concentrated here. Neglected and abandoned in the Medici era, it was instead the subject of
special attention, like the rest of the city, in the Lorraine era, when it was completely repaved and the central area bordered by small columns joined by chains, which gave it the popular name for the square of Chain Square (actually the official name was Piazza Grande).
In 1833 a cast-iron temple was placed on the ancient well from the Sienese period, which was later moved to Arcidosso, where it still stands today, to make room for the monument to Leopold II of Lorraine, which entailed a new rearrangement of the entire area. With the unification of Italy it was renamed Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II.
In 1870, the town hall was built by tearing down some buildings on the northern side of Cathedral Square, including the Church of St. John Decollate, while in 1899 the Praetorian Palace was demolished and the Palace of the Province was built in its place. In Fascist times the square changed its name once again, being named after Ettore Muti, a military man, airman and secretary of the PNF. In 1937 the Palazzo dei Priori was also torn down, expanding the space in front of the Cathedral, which between 1947 and 1950 was replaced by Palazzo Alben. Also in the immediate post-war period, it received its current naming after Dante Alighieri, and in 1956, cippus, chains were removed
and benches to make way for ample parking. Only in 2002 was the old 19th-century appearance restored, which we can still appreciate today.<\/p>\n

To be seen<\/h3>\n

The square is closed to the north by the Cathedral of San Lorenzo, which faces it with two 14th-century windows and a portal completed only in the 19th century in the Sienese style. On the eastern side, however, stands the Palazzo della Provincia, built in neo-Gothic forms, designed by Lorenzo Porciatti in the early 1900s, on the remains of the Palazzo Pretorio, perhaps the ancient Palazzo degli Aldobrandeschi. On the east and west sides, however, run low porticoes made by the Knights of St. Stephen.
In the center of the square was a large artesian cistern, which once gave the square its name (Cisternone). Today stands there the monument to Leopold II of Lorraine, the last Grand Duke of Tuscany, affectionately nicknamed “Canapone” for his blond hair, the 1846 work of Luigi Magi, erected to thank the sovereign for his work to reclaim the Maremma and fight malaria.
Piazza Duomo, on the other hand, lies between the facade of the cathedral to the east and the Town Hall building to the north, built in 1870 by tearing down the old, deconsecrated and decaying church of San Giovanni Decollato and adjacent buildings. At the transition point between the two squares is the “Banner Column.”<\/p>\n

How to get there<\/h3>\n

Piazza Dante is within the wall circuit of Grosseto, close to the Cathedral, a short distance from Porta Corsica.<\/p>\n

Timetables<\/h3>\n

Free access<\/p>\n

In the same area you can also visit<\/h3>\n

Cathedral of San Lorenzo<\/a>; Maremma Museum of Archaeology and Art<\/a>; Museum of Natural History<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you liked Dante Alighieri Square, you can also visit.<\/h3>\n

Piazza del Castello in Montemerano (km 54<\/a>); Piazza Garibaldi in Massa Marittima (km 48)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Curiosity<\/h3>\n

The Bandi Column, visible today near the right corner of the Cathedral facade, is actually not the original one. Certainly the presence of a column for posting notices is attested in the square since at least 1617. This, however, was removed during renovations in 1846. The present one was erected in 1966, on the site of the previous one, to celebrate the bicentennial of the establishment of the province of Grosseto, and was found in Bagni di Roselle in 1863, near the Lorenese baths, during construction work on Casa Passerini, a large colonial building erected in the second half of the 19th century on the remains of a Roman villa of the
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