Close to Corsica and to Tuscany, it is the link between France and Italy.
City of 11 000 habitants, Portoferraïo is the administrative centre of Elba (province of Livourne, a population about 29 000 inhabitants), the biggest town, possessing the biggest and the most important port. City of the Renaissance based in 1548 under Cosimo I de Medici, extraordinary example of mititary architecture.
