Casone

Casone
Frazione
The church of San Paolo della Croce
Casone Location of Casone in Italy
Coordinates: 42°39′3″N 11°46′12″E
Country	Italy
Region	Tuscany
Province	Grosseto (GR)
Comune	Pitigliano
Elevation	520 m (1,710 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	124
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	58017
Dialing code	(+39) 0564

Casone is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Pitigliano, province of Grosseto, in the tuff area of southern Maremma. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to 130.^[1]

Casone is about 80 km from Grosseto and 9 km from Pitigliano, and it is situated along the Provincial Road which links Pitigliano to the province of Viterbo and Lazio.

Main sights

• San Paolo della Croce, main church of the village, it was entirely re-built in the early 20th century in a Romanesque Revival style
• Casone War Memorial, memorial stone in remembrance of the fallen of the two world wars

References

1. (in Italian) Popolazione residente - Grosseto (dettaglio loc. abitate) - Census 2001 Archived 2018-08-26 at the Wayback Machine, Istat

Bibliography

• Aldo Mazzolai, Guida della Maremma. Percorsi tra arte e natura, Le Lettere, Florence, 1997