Bugatti Car Pics

100th Anniversary rally of Bugatti cars in Maremma Tuscany Italy

These Bugatti car pics were taken during the Bugatti 100 years anniversary celebrations in Tuscany. In the stunning medieval centre of the hill town of Massa Marittima on the afternoon of 28 May 2009. With its beautiful Piazza Garibaldi and cathedral as the backdrop.

It was a truly wonderful spectacle.

"A Bugatti museum on the roads of Maremma"

For three days in May 2009, as a celebration of the 100 years anniversary of the founding of the Bugatti company in 1909 in Alsace, Germany by Signor Ettore Bugatti, Maremma (and island of Isola d'Elba) became the only place in the world where it was possible to admire together more than 30 different Bugatti car models and 130 different Bugatti classic cars.

It was an unrepeatable and unique opportunity.

The publicity for the event read:

Almost all of the Bugatti car models ever made signed with the unturned E and B Bugatti logo - the designer Ettore Bugatti's initials - and the the famous horse shoe-shaped radiator took part in the event, to form what was described as an open-air museum.

From, "competition voiturettes belonging to the early decades of the last century, to the incomparable Grand Prix, from essential two seat sports cars to cars that were the epitome of technology and luxury in those years." Extract from the official press release for the Bugatti International Meeting 2009.

The cars included Type 13, T22, T23, T30, T35, T37, T38, T39, T40, T43, T44, T46, T49, T51, T54, T55, T57, and T59.

I'm not a car enthusiast, but to have seen so many wonderful old cars restored and tended to with evident passion, on a gloriously warm and sunny afternoon in Maremma, Tuscany, and in particular with the historic centre of medieval Massa Marittima as the background setting, was a real treat.

To hear them arrive and similarly to watch their preparations to leave assisted by fellow enthusiasts and adoring onlookers, was a special experience.

The Piazza Garibaldi in Massa Marittima is host to some wonderful and unusual events throughout each year, all of which have a magic of their own, but this was something different for Maremma.

The celebratory tour also took these wonderful classic cars to medieval Castiglione della Pescaia, the Etruscan city of Roselle, the Uccellina Nature Reserve within the Parco Naturale della Maremma, the ENEL Geothermal Power Station at Larderello, the city of Volterra, the Island of Elba, the ruined Abbey of San Galgano, and the castello di Colle Massari.

I hope you enjoy the photos. They are not professional images by any means, but I hope they have captured for you some of the magic that was in the air that day.

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