MARINA DI CAMPO

After the wonderful Poro Cape cliffs, to admire in all its breadth and magnificence the Marina di Campo Gulf, it’s necessary to go up toward S. Ilario and S. Piero. Marina di Campo is closed between the verdant Stella Cape and Fonza Cape, along which hide wonderful inlets, there is the famour beach of Lacona, characterized by her wonderful dunes of really fine sand and many tourist services, thanks to which it’s possible to practise any kind of water sport. Taking the open sea, the sand leave the place to rocks and posidonia depths, ideal places for scuba diving. The coast of Capoliveri besides Lacona boasts nice beaches and inlets: Margidore, Lido, Zuccale, Barabarca, Morcone and Pareti, totally surrounded by the maquis to which associate pines, eucalyptus, prickly pears, palms and agaves, are real places of peace and nature. In the romantic Innamorata creek watched over the small Gemini islands, besides the water clearness and the charming and incomparable sunsets, every 14th July you can assist to the revocation of the historical legend of two lovers: Lorenzo and Maria, dating back at 1534; a wonderful torchlight procession that includes the great parade of hundred walk-ons with sixteenth century cloths. Very beautiful is the indented Calamita Point coastline, in the numerous sheer gorges on the crystal clear water of the sea, nest thousand of herring-gulls. Along the coast you can see an unusual panorama: the wild nature colours dominated by lentisks, brooms, cistus, lavender, rosemary, space out with what remains of the mining activity of the old iron mines of Calamita Mount. Here the red iron rocks is the prevailing colour, as the mineral glittering mixed with black sand on the charming beaches. Many of these beaches can be reached only by sea, since they are already in the mineral zone. Looking to the horizon you can see the mysterious Montecristo island, which is since a long time an integral natural reserve.