GIGLIO CASTELLO
GIGLIO CASTELLO
Municipal, situated center to quota 405 s.l.m., is encircled from imposing walls spaced out from three towers to circular plant and seven to rectangular base. Erected from the Pisani in the XII sec., many times over widened and restored from the Granduchi of Tuscany, it is up to the present almost intact in its inside. The Giglio Castello is in reality fortified living and the access door is a extremely complex structure that is introduced as a avancorpo with numerous it arches that they allowed the shooting intercrossed of one most driven in formation of archers. On the inner facade of the last one of the three doors the coat of arms of the Doctors is the plate in representing marble, that they upgraded the castle destroyed from the saraceni. The imposing wall Medicee were built up on the ruins of the previous pisane of the XI sec. Inside of the village, in the below public square the church, can be still seen the reservior realized to the end of the '700 from the Doctors in order to resolve the water problems. The tightened ways, often sormontate from arch, the balzuoli (external scales in order to approach the advanced plans), Piazza XVIII November on which it dominates the Rocca Aldobrandesca, imposing defensive structure, makes of Giglio Castello an evocative goal, from the only fascination, today one of the medioevali villages more better conserved and originates them in Italy. The Church of Saint Peter Apostle has been constructed in all probability in XV the century and to its inside a remarkable number of reperti can be admired: a capitello corinzio of the II sec. a.C. that it supports the acquasantiera, the two statues of the seven hundred of Saint Mamiliano and Saint Peter, the marble altar of the XV sec., the reliquari of the Pope Urbano I and Urbano VIII, the church furnishingses of Pope Innocenzo XIII, the three burlaps of the Nasini, the Crocifisso of ivory of the XVI sec. attributed to Giambologna, the reliquario of the 1724 containing ulna skillful of Saint Mamiliano and exposed in teca of glass two sabres and d a gun with valuable inlays abandoned from the pirati ones during the last attack of 1799. Today, beyond to numerous botteghe and the characteristic small restaurants, wine cellars are still found where it comes produced and conserved the typical one, amber and sturdy Ansonaco wine, virtue of the isolani producers.
GIGLIO CASTELLO
GIGLIO CASTELLO
GIGLIO PORTO
GIGLIO PORTO
Only port of the island, colorful small and, from the colors of the houses and the sea of an unthinkable beauty for a harbour zone, as well as that the bottom for how much is looked at some very well is limpid, succeeds to conciliate the requirements trades them with those tourists. E' in fact port of call of the two great ferries of the companies Toremar and Maregiglio that connect the island with the cape of the Argentario in an hour also of winter, and tourist port for boats also great dimensions. In the two ramifications, to right and on the left, there are the two alimentary ways Thaon de Revel and Umberto I, rich of negozietti, botteghe handicraft, diving centers, storees, bar and meetings and many inviting restaurants with great platforms on the sea in the open air. Of forehead it leave the Provincial one that door towards the other localities and to the posterior part of the country, where there are numerous colorful alleys with characteristic small houses that are of the small jewels. The port was constructed for before the time from the Roman and remained such for approximately eighteen centuries. Then it was widened in 1796 and the 1979 later on to one exceptional sea storm. On its left the Tower of the Saraceno constructed in 1596 for wanting of Ferdinand of Tuscany with the scope of help is found the families of fishermen to return on the island from which they were you escape because of the frequent raids of saraceni. Remained are in the memory, it was sure the raid lead from Kair to-Din Barbarossa saying that in 1544 deported like slaves seven hundred gigliesi very. Little beyond Caletta of the Saraceno appears, where to water hair they are distinguished well walls them of the cetaria for the breeding of the murene and it leave of the imposing Roman Villa (III sec. d.C.) of the Domizi Enobarbi, whose rests have been in passed in great part situated in the inhabited center. Outside to right from the port, coming from the sea, the cape of the Contagious disease hospital is looked at where the Tower rises that was constructed originally in octagonal shape from Ferdinand II in 1622 and exactly delimited an area used after contagious disease hospital for the periods of epidemics. In the course of the time stat it is destroyed and reconstructed more resumptions until 1842 when she came rieretta in the shape it puts into effect them. Today private summery residence is one.
GIGLIO PORTO
GIGLIO PORTO
GIGLIO CAMPESE
GIGLIO CAMPESE
Last to be born like inhabited center, more important today constitutes the tourist takeover of the island with its beautiful and wide sand beach. The turned geographic position towards the island of Montecristo, the island of Elba and the Corsica, gives to the fortunate visitors sunsets beautiful that in the summery periods go quite beyond the nine of evening, giving itself therefore to this fantastic locality very sixteen hours of solar light. The charming virgin bay is framed from the Faraglione on one side, and medicea the Torre imposing from the other. This last one was constructed between the end of the XVII and the beginning of the XVIII sec. and while a completely isolated time situated on the rocks, today is connected to the mainland from a small bridge. The reason of the construction was the garrison of the bay of Campese from the frequent attacks of the barbaric pirates ones and represented the castle rock defensive of the heroic hunting of the tunisini in the last 18 barbaric attack of November 1799. The twenty that they die from south, than reach the shoulders, make of the bay one here for the sail and ideal arena lovers surf. Over the sea beyond to the historical and characteristic nucleus of the houses of the "trenini" slides crowning the bay where tourist structures are present on the great beach numerous but also many private houses. In the hill immediately near instead it has been constructed of recent one residential zone of constructions dipped in the green. In the zone of the old mine there are of the recidence directly on the sea and numerous stores of every kind. Also here there are the diving centers for the many it gets passionate to you undersea that attend the island, and more specifically the fantastic ones I found them famous also abroad. Recently the Island of the Giglio has been given from the Ministry of the Atmosphere of the "five the most cleaned up and beautiful sails" that denote our sea between than Italy. And enough to dip itself in these waters in order to become account of the transparency that it makes us to admire I found them from the surface of the water even if is deep several meters as they know the several gets passionate you of snorkeling that they catch up the Island of the Giglio from every part of Italy and of the world.
GIGLIO CAMPESE
GIGLIO CAMPESE
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