Castiglione della Pescaia boasts of its ancient origins. Castiglione is a small bathing town with an old fishermen's port, today become also a tourist port,  and a characteristic historical centre where to take a walk in the ways with small stores, wine cellars, boutique, restaurants.  Climbing up the narrow streets, you is reach the upper part of the town, from which you may enjoye the wonderful panorama of the sea-front as well as the one to the inland.  Along the port there are some benches of sale of fresh fish and towards 18,00 o'clock you may see the return of the fishing-boats.  Castiglione of the Pescaia is one of the 10 Italian bathing localities to which "Lega Ambiente", as well in 2013, has granted the 5 Sails.  The motivations which have determined such acknowledgment are: "a great historical centre, magnificently conserved, and a coastal pine-wood are the characteristics of Castiglione della Pescaia, one of the most significant localities of the Tyrrhenian coast, in the Blue Guide 2013.  Behind Castiglione della Pescaia, the great swamp of the Diaccia Botrona, a humid zone of international importance, recognized by the Convention of Ramsar, place of nest-building and transit of the avifauna and traditional fishing. Well placed inside the region of the Maremma, next to the natural park, Castiglione della Pescaia since long has started politics of bearableness for the regulation of tourist pressure and to ensure mobility services of low environmental impact". On the coast, few kilometres towards north, you may find bathin sites like Punta Ala with tourist port, golf-course and polo-fields or Follonica, famous for its long beach.  Towards south, passing along the coast with vast pine-woods, you get to Principina a Mare, where  the Natural Park of the Maremma begins, which extends itself until Talamone.  Here begins the coast of the Argentario with characteristic towns like Port Ercole and Porto S. Stefano, from whose ports leave the ferries for the islands of Giglio and Giannutri.  (During the period between spring and autumn there are however every day excursions for Elba, Giglio or Giannutri which depart directly from the port of Castiglione della Pescaia).  The inland is rich of numerous towns of ancient origins such as Tirli, Scarlino or Vetulonia and Roselle, known for its Etruscan excavations.  Little more than an hour by car, you may visit Montalcino, famous all over the world for its Brunello wine or the city of Siena, famous for its Palio (historical horse-race).