Montorio, Sorano

Montorio
Montorio
Frazione
	The castle of Montorio
	Montorio Location of Montorio in Italy
	Coordinates: 42°44′30″N 11°46′1″E / 42.74167°N 11.76694°E
Country	Italy
Region	Tuscany
Province	Grosseto (GR)
Comune	Sorano
Elevation	483 m (1,585 ft)
Demonym	Montoriesi
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	58010
Dialing code	(+39) 0564

Montorio is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Sorano, province of Grosseto, in the tuff area of southern Maremma.

Geography[edit]

Montorio is about 90 km from Grosseto and 10 km from Sorano, and it is situated along the Provincial Road which links Sorano to Castell'Azzara.

It was included — along with Castell'Ottieri, San Giovanni delle Contee and the castle of Sopano — in the small County of Ottieri in the Middle Ages. The county was abolished in 1616.^[1]

Santa Maria (19th century), the main church of the village, it was built in the 19th century in the place of the ancient chapel of the castle. It is a typical Gothic Revival architecture.^[2]
Castle of Montorio (12th century), built by the Aldobrandeschi in the Middle Ages, it was then restructured by the Ottieri and then transformed into a fortified farmhouse after the annexation of the county in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.^[3]
Walls of Montorio, old fortifications which surround the village since the 12th century.^[3]

^ (in Italian) Emanuele Repetti, «Montorio Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine», Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana, 1833-1846.
^ Carlo Citter, Guida agli edifici sacri della Maremma, Siena, Nuova Immagine, 2002.
^ ^a ^b Giuseppe Guerrini, Torri e castelli della provincia di Grosseto, Siena, Nuova Immagine, 1999.

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