The island of Elba, the largest of the Tyrrhenian pearls, the islands that make up the Tuscan archipelago, can be reached by ferry from the port of Piombino. Its history is determined by the strategic position and the richness of its land, vineyards and crops on the surface and precious minerals in the subsoil.
Today it has become a destination for international tourism that find hospitality in its villages perched on the hills overlooking the sea or stretched along the splendid coasts, of sand and granite, bathed by an uncontaminated sea.
On the shores of that Mediterranean which, insinuating itself into the mainland, forms the largest gulf of the ocean and now narrowing by means of islands or promontories, now extending widely, unites and separates the three parts of the ancient world. [T. Momsenn]
