Mining activities in the territory of Massa Marittima

What strongly characterizes Massa Marittima, both from an historical, artistic and archaeological point of view and an urbanistic one, is its close dependence on the mining and metallurgical tradition. The whole territory belonging to the wider complex of the Metal Hills, being characterized by a subsoil rich in mineral, has indissolubly bonded its history to the mines and the activities connected to them, which developed in Prehistory and came as far as recent years.