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RENT IN ELBA ISLAND – CAPOLIVERI: SCOOTERS – MOUNTAIN BIKES – RUBBER DINGHIES |
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A Capoliveri we arrive, or better, coming along the road from Portoferraio by Neapolitan road that crosses the island from north to south through S.Giovanni and Acquabona.
The climb an avenue of pines and oleanders, already everything an enchantment with the prospect of flat homonymous vineyards planted mainly its gentle hills. Just a little higher your eye suddenly catch the sight of the large Golfo Stella, while far away towers the granite mass of Mount Capanne. Behind, but now we face as we walk the last stretch the climb, the mirror blue Gulf of Porto Azzurro, which Capoliveri has in a condominium with the nearby charming town, adds a splash of color to an extraordinary symphony of colors. The village, perched on the largest and oldest part of the apex of a small hill at 165 mt. altitude offers magnificent views, especially following a beautiful road with narrow avenues of flowering oleander trees of incredible colours circling the whole town. Dominating Capoliveri is the great gulf of Follonica from which the sun rises early, then at noon the sun is almost perpendicular to the big and lonely cliff top Montecristo emerging from the sea and sets in the evening, depending on the seasons and the place of observation, or behind the ridge of the huts or far away, beyond the highest mountains of Corsica, white with snow and ice for many months of the year. But why describe the views that must be seen and enjoyed as they deserve? ... We will say only that the country retains narrow streets, and sometimes dark, picturesque, with archways and backgrounds characteristic houses with flowered balconies, and prospects new and unimaginable every step. The sea washes more than 45 km of coastline of the municipality to the east and south. The particular shape and characteristic of Capoliveri bears traces of its antiquity in its own architecture. It began as an Etruscan fortress offshore, it may have still had an older foundation, seen to the attendance of Greek and Phoenician sailors to an island rich in iron, but already known for copper. It became, inside the archaic walls, a rational geometry, typical of Latin American building tradition, while in the Middle Ages, the fortified village gathered around the square and further the current Via Roma, which is the main street and highest, from which a fishbone, branch out a series of alleys, streets and squares, characterized by arches, arches, subways, streets, stairs and side stairs.. by Capoliveri |
