Portoferraio - Elba Island

Capital and main port on the island, Portoferraio includes several attractions / art such as the parish church, built by the Grand Duke Cosimo I, the Palazzo Comunale, with its stocked library. And then again with the City Medicea Fortresses attack, the Fort Falcone, the Fort Star and the tower of Linguella, near which you can admire the ruins of a Roman villa and the Archaeological Museum.

Portoferraio was built on an ancient Roman Fabricia of origin. With the treaties of 1557 Cosimo I of Tuscany will recognize the full rights on the Siena together with the city of Portoferraio that the name of the founder is called Cosmopolis and will be part of the state definitively Florentine, with two miles of territory around.

In addition to the three main strengths, many complex in the city should be reported to the period of its foundation or the years immediately following. The system fortified belong Porta Sea, opened in the middle of Darsena, enlarged in 1737 by Ferdinand II and on the east quadrant, Porta Terra addressed to the access routes to the island. The economy of this village in the past had focused exclusively about iron ore, maritime trade and agriculture.

The sector of the economy is driving the sector, whose development is due to the concentration of public office, the growth of tourism, which has absorbed much of the industrial and agricultural workforce and moving passengers and the business of its port.

:: Ghiaie

:: Seccione

:: Enfola

:: Biodola

::Magazzini

::Ottone