03. Trekking

The legend has it that the Tuscan Archipelago had origin from a necklace that came out from Venus’ neck, goddess of beauty and of love, and fallen in the Tyrrhenian waters. The nature and the history of the third Italian island have mingled for a long time to produce, in few space, an extraordinary quantity of environments and cultures.
Covering few kilometres on foot you could leave from the sea and arrive to the mountain. You could visit the rests of an Etruscan high-ground fortress and then plunge in the sea from a little beach at some hundreds meters, with the caution that this planted with trees rock few meters from the coast far, more than two thousand years ago, carried out the wharf function for Roman honorary ships. It doesn’t exist in the Mediterranean another island in which you could find together granite mountains high more than 1000 metres and, after two hours walk, one of the mineral zone most interesting of the world. Who visits for the first time the Elba Island will astonish for how, turned a curve, you find unexpected and different sceneries. It seems that all its complex geological nature had conditioned everything, and looking better is really like that. Certain is that, to trace the thread of its more authentic nature , we need to see with different eyes an island also very tourist. The method that gives good results is to cover it on foot.
Trekking means take part to the environment that you visit. At Elba an excursion of few kilometres, made with calm, to see and hear, will be source of many discoveries. It’s also an invitation to visit Elba in the quieter autumn, winter and spring months, to discover microcosmos based on delicate equilibriums; historical, cultural and natural values by now forgotten.

The Elba on foot
We are sure that the excursions that we suggest you, between sea and sky, will be not only an occasion to meet people , but also a reason for personal enrichment in one of the most charming landscape of the Mediterranean.

The itineraries
The proposed itineraries can be covered also from who is a novice with the hiking. But, both for the nature of the paths, and for the situations, also the interest, that the attentive hiker meet, we advise, above all in the spring-summer, suitable equipments and cloths.
Who ask for going along tracks of the island, expresses also the desire of going back to the nature. The excursions are a good medicament against the modern life diseases. It needs that this possibility kept also for the future generations: the behaviour of some people destroy slowly the natural environment.

*Activities in collaboration with "Emozioni Mediteranee".