Mag 15 2016 andrea Municipality Elba Island / 0 Comment Municipality Campo in Elba – Elba Island Municipality Campo in Elba It is located in the southernmost part of the island, flat and extends from the Gulf of Lacona to Pomonte. It was once a fishing village that stretched along the wide sandy bay. Today is the main center of the town of Campo nell’Elba and its beach, the longest on the...
Mag 15 2016 andrea Municipality Elba Island / 0 Comment Municipality Capoliveri Elba Island Municipality Capoliveri Located in the south eastern Elba the country faces the terrace on a ridge of Mount Calamita, 167 meters s.l.m. Its name and its origins date back to Roman and Caput Liberi is Latin Colle Libero, meaning sacred to Bacchus, and as a place full of vineyards and wine.of historic...
Mag 15 2016 andrea Municipality Elba Island / 0 Comment Municipality di Marciana Elba Island Municipality Marciana It ‘located on the slopes of Mount Capanne in the west of the Elbe 375 meters s.l.m., is among the oldest settlements on the island, its foundation dates back to 35 B.C. .. A witness to the ancient past, in Marciana, the Archaeological Museum.The lush vegetation, consisti...
Mag 15 2016 andrea Municipality Elba Island / 0 Comment Municipality Marciana Marina Elba Island Municipality Marciana Marina This ancient fishing village is the smallest commune in Tuscany and became autonomous in 1884 when it separated from Marciana Alta. Arranged in a semicircle around an inlet on the northwest coast and its territory it is limited to the end costiera.ferraio Marciana Marina...
Mag 15 2016 andrea Municipality Elba Island / 0 Comment Municipality Porto Azzurro Elba Island Municipality Porto Azzurro The country was renamed in 1947 when it was allowed to change the old name of Porto Longone, which identified it with the prison housed in the Longone Fortress. Overlooking the Gulf of Mola, the widest bay of the eastern coast of Elba with its harbor well protected dock wh...
Mag 15 2016 andrea Municipality Elba Island / 0 Comment Municipality Portoferraio Elba Island Municipality Portoferraio Capital and main port center, is located on the northeastern coast on a promontory that closes the bay to north.Portoferraio is one of the oldest towns of the island, its origins date back to the Ligurians, the Etruscans and the Greeks, before becoming a Roman colony called...
Mag 15 2016 andrea Municipality Elba Island / 0 Comment Municipality Rio Marina Elba Island Municipality Rio Marina The country is located on the eastern side of the island in a small inlet surrounded by hills whose land, red by iron oxide, remember the rich mining past.In this area the iron oxide extraction took place since the time of the Etruscans and was, along with fishing, the main a...
Mag 15 2016 andrea Municipality Elba Island / 0 Comment Municipality Rio Elba – Elba Island Municipality Rio Elba The town is perched on a hill about 170 meters s.l.m., in the north-eastern side of ‘Elba.Among the oldest of the island countries, with origins in the Bronze Age, it retains many traces of its past, and these include marine archeological finds.Rio nell’Elba, famous...