A short drive north of Capalbio is the beautiful small town of Magliano in Toscana. It looks out over flat hinterland of that area of the Maremma, from behind large a striking fortified walls. Magliano was an important Etruscan settlement, and the archeological disovery of the 5th century Disco di Magliano was fundamental to the codification of the Etruscan language.

After the Etruscans, the Romans settled and fortified the town, and during the middle ages it was controlled by the powerful Aldobrandeschi family, who held it until it was incorporated into the Republic of Siena in the 14th century. The Sienese extended and renovated the remarkable walls, but they too, lost it to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in the mid-sixteenth century. Nearby are the ruins of the benedictine Monastery of San Bruzio, built in the 10th century, and quite beautiful.