Castiglioncello

The Etruscan coast , the hills , the headlands , are the places where you can find Castiglioncello , hangs between white beaches , reefs carved from the wind , Medievales villages, gulfs , bayes and hills full of Mediterranean trees . On the beach you can stay under the shade of the Pines , the Junipers come with you until the reef , the Jilexes are one step from the sea . Between sea and nature you find the path to discovery small but very important Architectonic and artistic treasures kept in this area loved from the Etruscan whose we have here very important finds . Castiglioncello is called the Pearl of the Etruscan coast, a fabulous place rediscovered during the ceturies, after the Etruscan from the Romans , from the nobility of Florence during the middle age , from politicians of our century , from famouses poets like D’Annunzio for example, from important directors, and actors.During the 50’s and 60’s Castiglioncello has been the restyling centre of Italian society , the life of a lot of Italian films has started here and there isn’t important actor who didn’t come here, in Castiglioncello.I like relate to you about the Macchiaioli, the Italian impressionists that from the second half of 1800 have been in this place painting in their pictures Castiglioncello and founding the Art School of Castiglioncello.

The Italian Impressionis need to personalize his style respect the French Impressionism finding in Tuscany a faboulous nature rich of hot and bright colour.In another section we speak about the Macchiaioli like Odoardo Borrani, Giovanni Costa , Giovanni Fattori , Telemaco Signorini , Giuseppe Abbati , Vincenzo Cabianca , Pietro Senno , Ugo Manaresi , Adolfo Tommasi , Vittorio Colcos , Alfredo Muller , Giovanni Bartolena , becouse their pictures are so important that we have to speak about these in a apposit section.Castiglioncello is today more than before Art , Show , the Castiglioncello Festival is open all the year thanks to Armunia , a company that organize theatre shows , music concerts , Filosofical events and something else about Literature , Sculpture , Infants Education ….

In Castiglioncello the life run less than other areas of Italy and Europe too , you can live in relax , belong to the stress of the big cities .The medieval places on the hills are like thousand of year ago You find small way , small churches ,old buildings , castles and everything seem like if you are living the storic period of that place.. Everywhere the sea come with you and you can find his magic blue color.The sea live with us , is the heart of this area , give colour to the landscape , give a magic smell to the air and become red when the sun go away in the afternoon after a great sunny day.
This sea live is very rich of fish , flowers and trees that arrive on the beaches.A great things is that you have everything near you , nature , sea , important and artistical cities like Volterra , San Gimignano , Pisa , Siena , Arezzo , Firenze and storic places like Bolgheri , Bibbona , Donoratico , Massa Marittima , Calci. In the countryside That arrive until the highest hills you can find The Wine Way , because thanks to our great sun we have the best wine of the world like Sassicaia , produced in the area of Bolgheri ,or like Ornellaia produced in the same area , wines that every year win the best premiums in the world .From 1970 we Produce wines in this area and now all the world come here to buy our wines after years of hard work to improve our products. Wine , Hney and Oil are our best products used in our restorants where you can find Gourmet from all the world looking here in Tuscany tastes and smells of some time ago.