Thinking about spending a few days on Elba in October? Beyond the beaches, there are villages to explore, nature trails to discover and plenty of ways to plan a weekend around your interests. You can combi [..]
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Too often the Elba Island is typed into search engines for summer holidays only, but in reality what our fantastic island, called “scoglio” by us Elbans, offers is much more than an unforgettable summe [..]
Welcome to Elba Island, where history and good wine merge. In fact, since the time of the Etruscans, people have strongly believed in Elba as an island with multiple properties, even in the production of [..]
Ancient roots If you are on the eastern side of Elba Island, I have to suggest you to visit, even for a few hours, the village of Capoliveri. Perched on the top of a hill, it is one of the oldest inhabited [..]
After mid-August: “the watermelon with pork”. This is what we say, on the island of Elba, about the delicious fruit, as a metaphor of the Elban summer that is ending. But you have to wait for September [..]
One of the protagonists of the Elban springtime is the sweet scent of the brooms. Brooms are plants that are resistant and can easily grow in the arid climate of the Island of Elba. The thorny broom, one o [..]
You might even not like it. But it’s one of the most extraordinary places that you can see on the Island of Elba although it’s not a breathtaking seaview. It is not even the brilliant blue sea [..]
The aim of my most recent visit to the Island of Pianosa was to go to one of the smaller beaches, deliciously unknown in the Tuscan Archipelago. I had already admired it before during a bicycle tour organi [..]
Cave bears and lynx, birch and fir, have shared the lands of the Archipelago for thousands of years with Homo sapiens. From 20,000 years ago, the progressive loosening of the grip of the cold has caused th [..]
The country of Italy is well known for its many towns, each of which has some special characteristics that are often overplayed by the office of local tourism promotion. On Elba Island however I always hav [..]
