What to do at Easter in Tuscan Maremma

We would like to give you some interesting ideas on what to do during Easter in the Tuscan Maremma on your next vacation in Grosseto. Our Tuscany vacation home resort has a very special offer for the first spring break with family or friends with buffet breakfast included. The Easter season is ideal for spending happy days with friends and taking home lots of fun memories.

 

Easter 2025 in Tuscan Maremma

Spring in the Tuscan Maremma is an enchanting season and offers many ideas for an Easter vacation. Ours is a land of nature, and when nature awakens, everything takes on a new look.

For Easter 2025 in Grosseto we suggest: hiking, but also horseback riding, mountain biking or canoe trips on the Ombrone river inside the Maremma Park. These are canoes assembled like catamarans, anti-tip, also suitable for families with children.

 

 

To enjoy this beautiful season, all you have to do is walk along the paths, along the river banks, along the unspoiled beaches and you will be able to enjoy the sweetest microclimate, new scents, pastel colors, animal calls and enchanting landscapes that include history and legends, ecosystems and biodiversity, festive villages and ancient vestiges.

The legend of Demeter, Mother Earth, and her daughter Proserpine, who was kidnapped by Pluto to make her Queen of the Underworld and his bride, lives on in the Maremma more than anywhere else, preparing for May, the month of folk songs and quests, when thanks are given for the harvest and the abundance of nature. The Maremma pays homage to Demeter, who, after shutting herself up in the rigors of winter, angry and grieving over the insidious rat, was convinced to make peace with humanity only after receiving a guarantee from Pluto to keep Proserpine for only six months of the year and send her back to Earth for the rest. Here, then, is Demeter exploding in all her beauty and splendor, giving flowers, fruit and grain, and becoming a generous and happy mother to whom men are indebted. In the Maremma there is always this close and ancient relationship between man and the earth, sometimes harsh and stepmotherly, but above all seen as a mother and a goddess who gives gifts. And so the teams of singers, the “maggiaioli”, who visit the farms, greet April by singing:

… “April has left us with a beautiful day, May is coming back and the shining star…”

 

 

Routes and itineraries in Maremma Park

April is the month of Easter, a feast of rebirth and resurrection that the Maremmans celebrate in their fields, in the birth of a calf or a foal, in the tasty fruit, first the almond blossoms and later the peach blossoms.

At this time of the year, we recommend the wildlife and forest trail (A5-A6) in the Maremma Park (very close to our accommodation) to cross the cork and oak forests in the respectful silence that the place and the animals deserve. Here you can meet herds of light and majestic fallow deer, with their young in tow, and hear the calls of the birds that fly above your head, trying to distinguish the cry of a woodpecker digging its nest in a tree trunk from that of a curlew, or the impressive flight of a peregrine falcon from the undulating choreography of egrets or greenshanks.

Also in spring, blue jays arrive in the Park, wonderful birds with colorful plumage that have recently returned to nest in this area, thanks to the installation of nests suitable for this type of avifauna by the Park Rangers.
Also in spring, the floristic aspect of this itinerary is particularly important, as it is rich in orchids of different species. It is possible to admire hundreds of them on the sides of the path. Of course, collecting is forbidden. Silence is also recommended if you want to see wild animals in a free state.

If you want to go to the wetland trail in Bocca d’Ombrone (A7) or to the Trappola marshes, north of the Ombrone, with its “chiari”, you can admire flamingos and herons, as well as the marsh harrier, whose plumage is lighter than that of other birds of prey.

 

 

Easter Monday at San Rabano Abbey

Still in the Maremma Regional Park, we would like to point out an exclusive visit that is organized every Easter Monday to the Abbey of San Rabano.
From the church of Santa Maria dell’Alberese a tractor leaves with food to be consumed in sacks, as is the tradition, and it also welcomes people who prefer not to walk the rather difficult route.
This year, thanks also to the restrictions imposed by Covid, San Rabano can be reached on foot, thanks to the new route that leads from Alberese to the historic Abbey and the ancient Uccellina Tower.
The beauty and the artistic and cultural interest of the Abbey of San Rabano will reward the long and somewhat arduous walk with breathtaking views, which in April are enhanced by the variety of colors and species of flowers.

 

 

Good Friday Procession in Grosseto and the villages of the Maremma

Continuing with the Easter theme, the antivigil offers us a procession of very ancient tradition: that of Good Friday evening as a celebration of the Passion of the Lord. The Bishop leads the procession that starts from the Cathedral of Grosseto and goes through the streets of the city center with the statue of the dead Christ and Our Lady of Sorrows. The same procession takes place at the same time in various villages of the Maremma, such as in Buriano (near Castiglione della Pescaia), where the procession is preceded by “hooded men” dressed in long black cassocks that also cover their faces and carry scourges on their belts, recalling the ancient figures of penitents for Christ’s betrayal on the evening of the Last Supper. Everything implies a rebirth, not only spiritual, but of life in general.

Gastronomy in the Tuscan Maremma in Spring

In the Maremma, it is possible to pick the first fruits and vegetables at the right time of the year, picking wild asparagus along the country lanes and roads, tasting seasonal foods such as artichokes, broad beans, courgettes and then cherries, strawberries and apricots. From a gastronomic point of view, there are festivals in medieval towns and villages, the first open-air lunches or snacks on the sea or in small rustic country inns, as the days grow longer, the air warms and the breeze is pleasant.

 

 

What to do in Tuscan Maremma if it rains

What if a rainy day comes between a gentle breeze and the first warmth of spring? Fear not, for the alternatives are interesting.

• In the city of Grosseto you can visit two splendid museums, both located in the center in old historical buildings: one is the Archaeological Museum with artifacts ranging from the Paleolithic age through Villanovan and Etruscan culture to evidence from the Roman and then medieval period, all found in archaeological sites in the surrounding area. The other is the Natural History Museum of the Maremma: a journey into the complex and ancient nature of our territory;
• The Picture Gallery of the Diocese of Grosseto, next to the Cathedral of San Lorenzo, is also worth a visit for its abstract Gothic purity and to attend the traditional Easter concert of the Grosseto Symphony Orchestra;
• Also of interest are the Grosseto Municipal Aquarium, run by volunteers from the Diving Club, which houses live species recovered from the local sea, and the Talamone Aquarium, which houses specimens of the “Caretta caretta” sea turtle, which are often found stranded and then sent to the Sea Turtle Recovery Center to be released back into the sea;
• In the province of Siena there are two evocative abbeys to visit: the closest is San Galgano, a Cistercian abbey in Gothic style, whose church, unfortunately, has no roof, but this is what gives it its magic and uniqueness; the second is the Romanesque abbey of Sant’Antimo, where, especially at Easter, services are celebrated with Gregorian chants, a mystical and spiritual experience of the highest order.

 

For the Easter holidays, we invite you to discover our complete offer of cottages and the Easter 2025 package.

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