Sterpaia Coastal Park is a wet forest, typical of the ancient coastal landscape of Maremma, an enchanted place located on the wide gulf between Piombino and Follonica.
It is an area of around 296 acres where you can get lost among oak trees, in the company of small animals that inhabit the forest, up to discover, over the sand dunes, the sea. Here you are located at Sterpaia Coastal Park, south of Piombino.
Some extensive dunes are home to stretches of the coastal pine forest, which remains comfortable during the hot summer days in the shade of the foliage of pines, lulled by the sound of cicadas. Those who love beaches, can have 17 hectares of sand, for a development of about 10 kilometers of coastline, with factories, restaurants and picnic areas. The beaches are situated in Perelli, Carlappiano, Mortelliccio, the Pine, Carboniferous and Torre Mozza. The roads leading to the entrances to the park and the beaches leave from the road so-called “geodesic” that connects to Riotorto Piombino.
If the coast of Follonica – Piombino I prefer the coastal areas to the north, where you can enjoy the pine forests and beaches of the Gulf of Baratti.
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By Elsi H
Photos: livornonow, Flickr
