Grosseto is a town and comune in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Grosseto province. The city lies at 12 km from the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Maremma, at the centre of an alluvional plain.

Of the some 75,000 inhabitants of the commune listed in the census statistics, grossly 60,000 live in the city proper: the remaining are distributed in several fractions, including Marina di Grosseto, the biggest one, Principina a Mare, Montepescali, Braccagni, Istia d'Ombrone, Batignano and Alberese.

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