Borgo Carige
hamlet of Capalbio
Borgo Carige is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, and a frazione of the municipality of Capalbio, in the province of Grosseto. At the time of the 2001 census, it had a population of 229.
The village is located about 54 km south of Grosseto and 5 km from Capalbio, in the southern Maremma plain between the Capalbio hills and the Tyrrhenian Sea, along the Via Aurelia, the main coastal highway linking Grosseto and Rome. Borgo Carige was established in the 1950s as part of the agrarian reform.
Geography
Borgo Carige is located at the southern edge of the Maremma of Grosseto, in the coastal and near-coastal area known as the Silver Coast (Costa d'Argento).
The village lies at 21 m above sea level in a flat area below Poggio Monteti (421 m) and the Capalbio hills, between the Fosso di Gabriellaccio to the northwest, the Chiarone to the southeast, and the Canale della Bassa to the south. Borgo Carige borders Capalbio to the north, Pescia Fiorentina to the east, Capalbio Scalo to the south, and Giardino to the west.
History
The Capalbio plain remained sparsely populated for centuries, and the settlement developed only in the 20th century following the complete reclamation of the Maremma plain and the agrarian reform launched in 1951. The locality of Carige was selected for the construction of a new village intended to serve as a service and social centre for approximately 400 farms spread across a rural area of about 5,000 hectares between Capalbio and the coast.
Construction began in July 1956, and the village was inaugurated on 3 May 1958.
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