{{Infobox frazione | name = Tirli | native_name = | image_skyline = TirliCastiglioneDellaPescaiaPanorama1.JPG | image_caption = View of Tirli | coordinates = {{coord|42|50|43|N|10|53|42|E|display=inline,title|type:city}} | region = {{flag|Tuscany}} | province = Grosseto (GR) | comune = Castiglione della Pescaia | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 404 | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = | population_footnotes = | population_total = 255 | population_as_of = 2011 | pop_density_footnotes = | gentilic = Tirlesi | saint = | day = | postal_code = 58043 | area_code = (+39) 0564 | website = | footnotes = }} '''Tirli''' is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Castiglione della Pescaia, 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], Istat.</ref>
Tirli is about 28 km from Grosseto and 18 km from Castiglione della Pescaia, and it is situated on a hill next to the peak of Poggio Ballone.
== History == The village dates back to the Early Middle Ages, as it was mentioned in a document of 814. Destroyed by the Turks in the 16th century, it was then part of the Principality of Piombino.<ref>{{in lang|it}} Emanuele Repetti, «[http://www.archeogr.unisi.it/repetti/dbms/sk.php?id=4115 Tirli]», ''Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana'', 1833–1846.</ref>
== Main sights == thumb|right|200px|The church of ''Sant'Andrea Apostolo'' * Church of ''Sant'Andrea Apostolo'' (17th century), main parish church of the village,<ref>{{in lang|it}} [http://www.chiesacattolica.it/pls/cci_new_v3/cciv4_edit_info.edit_parret?id_p=2710005&cod_reg=&cod_dioc= Parish of Tirli], CEI official site.</ref> it was consecrated in 1674.<ref name="Santi">Bruno Santi, ''Guida storico-artistica alla Maremma. Itinerari culturali nella provincia di Grosseto'', Siena, Nuova Immagine, 1995, pp. 83–84.</ref> The former convent of ''Sant'Agostino'' is situated next to the church. * Hermitage of ''San Guglielmo di Malavalle'' (13th century), situated in the woods near the village. It was built between 1230 and 1249 as a sanctuary where saint William of Maleval was buried.<ref name="Santi"/> * Hermitage of ''Sant'Anna'' (17th century), located in the woods of Tirli. * ''Palazzo Pretorio'' (18th century).
== References == {{reflist}}
== Bibliography == * Bruno Santi, ''Guida storico-artistica alla Maremma. Itinerari culturali nella provincia di Grosseto'', Siena, Nuova Immagine, 1995, pp. 83–84. * Enrico Collura, Mario Innocenti, Stefano Innocenti, ''Comune di Castiglione della Pescaia: briciole di storia'', Grosseto, Editrice Innocenti, 2002, pp. 176–187. * Fiorenzo Corsali, ''Storia della Maremma. Castiglione della Pescaia e il suo territorio'', Roma, Aldo Sara Editore, 2008, pp. 65–69, 103–106.
== See also == * Buriano, Castiglione della Pescaia * Pian d'Alma * Pian di Rocca * Punta Ala * Roccamare * Rocchette * Vetulonia
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