PORTOFERRAIO

Some monuments, even if not of lofty artistic value, have their importance. The Parochial, intentional church from granduca Cosimo I; the Communal palace, with its supplied library. And then still the Medicea City with the Fortresses of attack, the Strong Falcon, the Strong Star and the tower of the Linguella, in whose pressed can be admired the ruins of one roman villa and the Archaeological Museum. Portoferraio was constructed on an ancient Fabricia of roman origin. With it deals you of the 1557 Cosimo of Tuscany will be looked at to together recognize the straight full loads on the state of Siena to the city of Portoferraio that gives the name of the founder will come called Cosmopolis and will enter to make part of the state definitively fiorentino, with two miles of territory round. Beyond to the three main forts, many complexes of the city must immediately be reported to the period of its foundation or to the following years. To the fortified system they belong the Door of Sea, opened to the center of the Dock, widened in the 1737 from Ferdinand II and, on the east quadrant, the Door of Earth addressed towards the road of connection with the island. The economy of this village in past was centralized exclusively on the extraction of the iron mineral, on the marine commerce and agriculture. The pulling ahead field of the economy is the terziario, whose development has had to the concentration of the offices publics of the island, to the increase of the tourism, that it has absorbed great part of the agricultural and industrial labor, to the movement fleeting and to the business activity they of its port.

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