Statonia

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Statonia was an ancient Etruscan city located in what is now southern Tuscany (province of Grosseto), central Italy.

The ancient town was located south-west to the modern Pitigliano, not far from the localities of Corano and Poggio Formica, where several prehistoric tombs have been excavated. Its remains are on a tuff butte. According to archaeologists, Statonia's period of highest splenoudr would have been the 7th century BC. The remains include a necropolis with a tombs carved in the rocks, parts of a wall curtain and the ruins of a medieval church.

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• Mazzolai, Also (1997). Guida della Maremma. Percorsi tra arte e natura. Florence: Le Lettere. 
• Citter, Carlo (2002). Guida agli edifici sacri della Maremma. Siena: Nuova Immagine Editrice.