Porto di Talamone

Just a step away from the Maremma Natural Park lies the port of Talamone. The town of the same name, which lies at the southernmost edge of the Uccellina hill group in the municipality of Orbetello, is very small but at the same time ancient and full of history. The location of the port, the only natural outlet to the sea for the nearby necropolis located inland in the municipal territories of Orbetello and Magliano, soon became an important port of call for the Etruscans.

In Roman times, then, this berth took on a strategic role for the numerous settlements scattered in its vicinity. Only during the Middle Ages was the port equipped with fortifications to reduce the risk of raids and eventually defend it.

But the historical episode that gave celebrity to the port of Talamone is surely the landing of Giuseppe Garibaldi who awaited the arrival of the large number of participants who would take part with him in the Expedition of the Thousand in March 1860.

During the last century, due to the two world wars, the port experienced periods of decline, and only since the postwar period have improvement and expansion works been undertaken that have turned it into a modern and well-equipped tourist port that can be admired today.

This port of call in Toscama lies to the west of the gulf of the same name, in the immediate vicinity of both today’s town and the promontory on which the original historic center is located

The marina is contained to the north by a 60 m long pier, to the south by a small berth of only 40 m from which also comes to life a 180 m long breakwater pier equipped with a signal beacon to which should be added another beacon near the port area to signal the southern prominence of the Talamone promontory

Including between the pier and the small landing were created 7 floating docks to which 5 more docks built north of the harbor and the pier should be added

It is made up of several moorings placed along a series of piers and docks that allow berthing for 40 boats to which is added an agency that also organizes fishing-tourism mini-cruises with its boats.

The seabed, mainly sandy and muddy, ranges from 2 meters deep in the docks to 5 meters deep in the basin.

The port area offers basic services such as a fuel station, slipway, travel lift, slipway, and hull service.

It shook local public opinion when news broke in late 2014 that the port of Talamone was at risk of closure due to a lack of sufficient depth to ensure safe navigation for recreational boats.

According to an audit by the local maritime district office, the extremely shallow seabed had to be dredged so as not to have to close the northern section of the port to navigation, which would hinder the mooring of a few hundred berths of various sizes that account for about 70 percent of the total within the port. Inevitable would be the economic and social repercussions on the whole area, and the entire tourism industry of the lower Maremma would also suffer serious and negative repercussions