Holiday homes Elba Island

Holiday homes in Porto Azzurro

While the town of Porto Azzurro is renowned by tourists for its beautiful seafront, the inland has always been appreciated for its fertile and extensively cultivated land. Still nowadays, besides tourism which has become the main source of profit of the island of Elba, Porto Azzurro is the main producer of fruit and vegetable of the entire island, as well as vineyards, which are widespread all over the island. This beautiful countryside is scattered by old and new single family homes. While newer holiday homes have been mainly built with the idea to use them for tourists, older ones have been restructured to satisfy the same purpose. While holiday homes are so big that can be compared to villas, in the countryside they mainly consisted of farmhouses where large families were living, as it was custom in continental Tuscany until the first half of the last century, but this type of houses are rare, because agriculture on the Island of Elba has always been an activity carried out on a limited area in view of the morphological characteristics, which are very similar to those of Liguria. This is the reason why terracing are common, that cultivate the scarce fertile land on hill and mountain slopes, avoiding intensive cultivations. With the establishment of seaside tourism, in addition to be important for its location near a fertile agricultural area, this location has also become attractive for the holiday homes in Porto Azzurro which are situated by the sea or have a beautiful sea view. Since Porto Azzurro is located at the centre of the Gulf of Mola, you can quickly reach the beaches of the Calamita promontory, in the municipality of Capoliveri, and five minutes by car from the town centre of Porto Azzurro! More or less, the same time required to reach the two largest beaches of Porto Azzurro: Barbarossa and the beach of Reale. If you don’t want to take the car, you can sunbathe and dive in the waters of the small beaches of Pianotta and Rossa, located at the two edges of the town, with clean sand and water, looked after by the people of Porto Azzurro who are very fond of these charming sandy coves. Sun beds and beach umbrellas are available at Rossa beach free of charge, to attract tourists in order to grow fond of the Spanish seaside village on the island of Elba.