{{Infobox frazione | name = Baccinello | native_name = | image_skyline = Chiesa di San Giovanni Bosco a Baccinello.jpg | image_caption = The church of ''San Giovanni Bosco'' | coordinates = {{coord|42|47|26|N|11|21|55|E|display=inline,title|type:city}} | region = {{flag|Tuscany}} | province = Grosseto (GR) | comune = Scansano | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 156 | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = | population_footnotes = | population_total = 271 | population_as_of = 2011 | pop_density_footnotes = | gentilic = Baccinellini | saint = | day = | postal_code = 58054 | area_code = (+39) 0564 | website = | footnotes = }} '''Baccinello''' is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Scansano, province of Grosseto. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to 284.<ref>{{in lang|it}} [http://dawinci.istat.it/MD/dawinciMD.jsp?a1=m0GG0c0I0&a2=mG0Y8048f8&n=1UH90007SN5&v=1UH07B07SN50000 Popolazione residente - Grosseto (dettaglio loc. abitate) - Censimento 2001] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826214450/http://dawinci.istat.it/MD/dawinciMD.jsp?a1=m0GG0c0I0&a2=mG0Y8048f8&n=1UH90007SN5&v=1UH07B07SN50000 |date=2018-08-26 }}, Istat</ref>
Baccinello is about 24 km from Grosseto and 21 km from Scansano, and it is situated in a plain in the Trasubbie valley. The village became famous because, in 1958, a complete fossilized skeleton of Oreopithecus bambolii was found in one of the lignite mines.
== Main sights == * ''San Giovanni Bosco'', main parish church of the village, it was built in 1977 * Old lignite mine, one of the most important sites of lignite in Europe, it's now closed
== References == {{reflist}}
== Bibliography == * Aldo Mazzolai, ''Guida della Maremma. Percorsi tra arte e natura'', Le Lettere, Florence, 1997. * Giuseppe Guerrini, ''Torri e castelli della Provincia di Grosseto'', Nuova Immagine Editrice, Siena, 1999.
== See also == * Montorgiali * Murci * Pancole, Scansano * Poggioferro * Polveraia * Pomonte, Scansano * Preselle
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