Just a stone’s throw from the Maremma Natural Park lies the port of Talamone. The town of the same name, located on the southernmost edge of the Uccellina hills in the municipality of Orbetello, is a very small town, yet one that is ancient and steeped in history. The port’s location—the only natural access to the sea for the nearby necropolises situated inland within the municipalities of Orbetello and Magliano—soon made it an important port of call for the Etruscans.

During the Roman era, this dock came to play a strategic role for the numerous settlements scattered throughout the surrounding area. It was not until the Middle Ages that the port was fortified to reduce the risk of raids and, if necessary, to 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 assessment by the local maritime district office, the extremely shallow seabed needed to be dredged to avoid having to close the northern section of the port to navigation, which would prevent the mooring of several hundred berths of various sizes—representing about 70% of the total within the port. The economic and social repercussions for the entire area would be inevitable, and the entire tourism industry in the lower Maremma would also suffer serious and negative consequences.