Elba Island

Holiday info on the Elba island

Details for the stay on the Island, you can receive information or book directly . The request will reach the accommodation facilities of your interest: hotels, residences, camping, apartments, bed & amp; breakfast. You will receive the answers by e-mail, directly from the structures.

Hotel Elba Island

There are many hotels and a wide choice, with the possibility of staying a few meters from the sea, if this is what you want. Choose a hotel in the central part of Elba if you love worldly life looking for more leisure and entertainment, if you want a more relaxing holiday, with the sensations that a island can give, in the far west you will find the right hotel for you.

Hotel Villa Etrusca

Hotel Villa Etrusca is situated in front of a pineweed just a short walk the delightful sandy beach Marina di ...

Hotel Casanova

The small inn is 450 meters from the Lido Beach. It offers many services, first amongst which is the restaurant, ...

Hotel Anselmi

The Anselmi hotel is located 150 meters from the seafront and the beaches of Marciana Marina , is managed directly ...

Hotel da Giacomino

Hotel da Giacomino is situated in the centre of Baia di Capo S. Andrea, the hotel Giacomino stands in a ...

Hotel Marinella

Hotel Marinella in Marciana Marina the Elban locality that most maintains the maritime traditions of the island. Here in a ...

Bed & Breakfast Villa Capitorsola

On the island of Elba the Bed & Breakfast Villa Capitorsola is situated on a small hill behind the Lido ...

Hotel Belmare

Hotel Belmare rises on the hills of the West Coast, surrounded by a luxuriant Mediterranean vegetation, with wonderful view over ...

Hotel Villa Ombrosa

Hotel Villa Ombrosa faces Le Ghiaie beach and looks out over the gulf’s limpid waters; while only a stone’s throw ...

Tourmaline moor's head, the Island of Elba

The particular Tourmalines moor's head, the Island of Elba, unique of San Piero and recognized by collectors all over the world.

The precious minerals, Elbaite, Petalite, pollucite , Aquamarine, Beryl, on display at the museum of mineralogy and gemmologico LUIGI CELLERI” in San Piero brings the attention of the wonders of the subsoil of the island of Elba.

Elba Island visit to the Grotta dello Sbruffo

The Grotta dello Sbruffo is located about 500 m from the Enfola beach, 20 minutes by pedal boat, it is a natural cave on Elba which can only be entered I swim. The reflections of light due to the sun's rays penetrate inside from above, creating very particular colours.

The peaks of the island of Elba: the Faraglioni degli Argonauti

Faraglioni degli Argonauti, rocky outcrops with extravagant shapes that make them particular and characteristic.

On the northern coast of the Island of Elba, near Enfola, there are a series of fascinating rocky peaks that rise from the sea. All of them of various and distinct form.

They are not as famous as the faraglioni of Capri, but the faraglioni of Elba also have their beauty. If you are in the vicinity of Enfola, Sansone beach or find the particular rock formations interesting, then it is worth knowing where they are and paying us a visit.

Towns and places on the Island of Elba

Elba offers a territory rich in panoramas and hidden corners to explore (both marine and mountain). In addition to this, the island is well prepared for tourism (on the island there are about: 200 hotels, 50 residences, 30 campsites, 30 agritourism companies). The number of residents on the island is just over 20 thousand.

Geology of the Island of Elba

The geological features of the Island of Elba

The richness and variety of the mineralization of elba, related to the extraordinary view of the geological, have made the geology of the island is famous all over the world, and the sample consists of hematite, pyrite, tourmaline are present, and excelling in all of the mineralogical Museums. On the Island were discovered for the first time in nature, a dozen minerals, including the ilvaite, which takes its name from the ancient name of the island, and the Aquarium.

Mining museum of Rio Marina, Elba Island

The Museum of minerals of the Island to Rio Marina houses an important collection of samples consists of exceptional beauty and inserted in an environment that recreates the workshop of the blacksmiths with tools and materials found in shipyards, mines abandoned. The reconstruction of the shelter of a miner and a gallery, all natural size and material true, recovered in the abandoned mines for more than 20 years.

The old mines of Rio

The exhibition also includes a photographic documentation on the old mines of Rio and Capoliveri and sculptures that use the old tools of mine. Leave from the museum in the days and hours established guided tour of the mine of Rio: the old village of miners, the caviere, the washery and the yards that for 100 years, we have seen the industrial working under the open sky elba miners.

Principality of the Island of Elba

The principality of the Island of Elba was a small European state, which existed in the 19th century from 1814 to 1815, ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, former emperor of the French and king of Italy.

Treaty of Fontainebleau

The principality of the island was created by virtue of the Treaty of Fontainebleau where Napoleon was allowed to keep his noble titles. By renouncing any dynastic right for himself and his descendants over France, Italy and the other countries which belonged to the French Empire.