Marciana Marina is an Italian municipality of 1,953 inhabitants within the province of Livorno and is, by territorial extension, the smallest municipality in Tuscany. Marciana Marina is situated on the Island of Elba and is washed by the Ligurian Sea. Yearly it’s dwelling to the La Tore Isola d’Elba Literary Prize
On the entrance to the port, whose first stone was laid on 10 September 1911, is the traditional Torre degli Appiani, whose present varieties may be attributed, primarily based on stylistic and structural typologies, to the second half of the sixteenth century. The primary nucleus of the city, known as Marina di Marciana or Marciana Marittima, developed within the place known as Il Cotone (a neighborhood time period that means “giant boulder”, from the Latin accusative cotem)[4] close to a pure harbour. Not far-off there was a small marshy space, which was later reclaimed.[5] Subsequently there was additional city growth which gave rise to the so-called Lengthy Neighborhood. Within the heart, in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, the church of Santa Chiara, courting again to 1776, must also be famous. Historic buildings of notable curiosity are the Villa Anselmi and the Villa Leonardi (the latter with a triple veranda on Tuscan order columns), dated to the nineteenth century. Throughout the 18th century, on account of its port and industrial significance, Marciana Marina was known as Little Marseille.
From the provincial street that connects Marciana Marina to the hamlet of Procchio, the islet known as La Paolina is seen. Named after Paolina Bonaparte following the post-war vacationer enlargement (initially the city was known as Castiglioncello), it homes ruins of a Roman development courting again to a interval between the first century BC. and the first century AD. and maybe belonging to an historical industrial emporium. Examples of contemporary post-World Struggle II structure are Villa Spinelli (Crocetta), Villa Albertini, Villa Del Balzo and Villa Vannini-Parenti (Bagno).
