Sorano, dating to the Etruscan-Roman times, is the ideal place for those who love walking thanks to its archaeological park and to its numerous woods. Moreover, the Fortezza Orsini, the church of San Niccolò and the Palazzo Comitale can be visited here. This town is in the province of Grosseto and it has a population of about 4,000 inhabitants.

The first settlement in Sorano almost certainly dates to the III century b.C., at the time of the Roman settlements in Etruria. Probably, Sorano was little more than a village under the administration of the most powerful and richer town of Sovana. The first certain information on the village, yet, date to the year 862. It consist of a diploma with which the emperor Ludwig II formalized the growth of the Aldobrandeschi's county, where Sorano was the most important centre. As such, the town was a loyal of the Aldobrandeschi and it detached from them in 1312.
The 450 uninterrupted years of domination of this Lombard-born family only stopped with its extinction. At the time of its last heir's death, Marghrita, Sorano was handed down to the Orsini through the marriage between Romano di Gentile Orsini and Anastacia, the countess's only legally recognized daughter. The Orsini were a powerful Roman family of Guelph orientations and, therefore, they were in disfavour with the near Republic of Siena. The pressure of the Ghibelline city soon started to emerge and, after more than a century of fights, the Orsini were obliged to recognize the dominion of Siena on the territories of Sorano, Pitigliano and Castell'Ottieri.
Since the half of the XVI century, the Orsini reaffirmed their rule thanks to the definitive subjugation of Siena to the Medici's Grand Duchy. Sorano appeared as a lively centre where the political and guild activities intensely developed, while the Orsini worried about the strengthening of the stronghold. In effect, the importance of the town made it the object of numerous battles, also inside the family that governed it until 1604, when the extinction of the lineage caused the Medici to get the leadership.
Yet, the work of the Hapsburg-Lorraine, who became the new leaders of he Grand Duchy in 1737, was more remarkable. They provided for the industrial development of Sorano that was a very flourishing centre at the time, also because it was far from the epicentres of the plague epidemics that raged over Maremma. The wealth and prosperity of the village in the Lorraine centuries was such that no inhabitant of Sorano actively participated to the Risorgimento uprisings and to the Independence wars. Sorano was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy and became part of the province of Grosseto in 1869.