Associazione Amici di Porto Ercole

Associazione Amici di Porto Ercole
c/o Via Capalbio - 58018 Porto Ercole (Gr)

PORTO ERCOLE

Porto Ercole,
la Rocca e
Forte Filippo

Porto Ercole is a little port of the southern coast of Tuscany, famous for being the spot where the great painter Caravaggio died in 1610.
It is placed in the middle of the Maremma, in one of the most suggestive promontories of Italy: Monte Argentario.
That promontory is linked to the mainland by two narrow sand dunes, which form a beautiful lagoon.
The Romans called the little port "Portus Herculis", but it appears that the place owes its name to the Etruscans. All around the coast near Porto Ercole you can see sandy beaches, pictoresques little bays, grottos accessible only from the sea and crystal clear waters.
Porto Ercole is surrounded by the scented Mediterranean scrub, where in the less accessible zone you can find some rare specimens of the dwarf palm.
Near the port there are also orchards, olivegroves and vineyards, which give an excellent wine.
In the maintime the massive spanish fortifications give to the landscape its peerless character and tell of ancient fights against the Pirate Barbarossa.

Lotto e La Costa