An old legend tells that islands of Tuscany, were originally, precious gems from Venus tiara, who was born from Tirreno sea waves. The jewel once broke and its gems felt down into the beautiful sea and today they still decorate it with their incomparable beauty.
The biggest of the above gems is Elba Island, a place of an extraordinary beauty that with his harbours, the pinewoods, fisherman’s villages and the pure shores, is reflected on the transparent waters of Tirreno sea.
Capoliveri and its Innamorata Shore
The beautiful Innamorata Shore (which literary means : being in love), known thank to a legend according to which a special thing happened in 1534. During that time, pirates of Khayr ad-Din (aka Barbarossa), kidnapped a rich young boy, Lorenzo. Desperate to follow him, his girlfriend Maria, thrown herself into the sea and drawn. The village of Capoliveri, each july 14th repropose the whole story through a festival during which a girl throw herself into the waves, as Maria did, in a suggestive choreography.


Thank to its geographic location Castiglione della Pescaia is a pretty and romantic and elitist town offers a very warm climate, expecially in summertime and great sunsets and views from its hills. This place is very well known for its great tuscan seaside traditional cooking recipes as well.
According to an old legend, San Guglielmo from Malavalle, patron saint of Castiglione della Pescaia, killed a terrible dragon which was living in the surroundings. In Saint Andrea’s Church we can still find the rib of the killed dragon.