Piazza del Sale
Piazza del Mercato, better known as Piazza del Sale is a public square in the historic centre of Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy. Named for its historical role as a medieval salt storage hub, the square has been a key site in Grosseto since the 13th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Pedestrian zone
- Description: square in Grosseto, Italy
- Also known as: “Piazza del Mercato” and “Piazza del Sale, Grosseto”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cassero del Sale and Porta Vecchia.
Cassero del Sale
Historic building
Photo: Alienautic, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cassero del Sale is a 13th-century building in Grosseto, Tuscany. It is located in Piazza del Mercato, also known as Piazza del Sale, and was built to store the salt collected from the wetland areas of the region.
Porta Vecchia
City gate
Porta Vecchia is the oldest city gate in the walls of Grosseto, located at the southern corner of the fortifications. Together with the Cassero Senese, it is one of the two surviving architectural elements from the 14th-century city walls, having endured the extensive reconstruction work carried out by the Medici in the late 16th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grosseto and Porta Vecchia.
Grosseto
Photo: trolvag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grosseto is a city and a comune in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the province of Grosseto and the main city of the Maremma. The city lies 12 kilometres from the Tyrrhenian Sea, at the centre of an alluvial plain on the Ombrone river.
Piazza del Sale
- Category: square
- Location: Province of Grosseto, Grosseto, Tuscany, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
42.75869° or 42° 45′ 31″ northLongitude
11.11435° or 11° 6′ 52″ eastElevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
8FJHQ457+FPOpenStreetMap ID
way 125599875OpenStreetMap feature
highway=pedestrian
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Piazza del Sale” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Piazza del Mercato”
- Dutch: “Piazza del Sale”
- French: “Piazza del Mercato”
- French: “Piazza del Sale”
- German: “Piazza del Mercato”
- German: “Piazza del Sale”
- Italian: “piazza del Mercato”
- Italian: “Piazza del Mercato”
- Italian: “piazza del Sale”
- Italian: “Piazza del Sale”
- Spanish: “Piazza del Sale”
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