Marciana Marina is an Italian municipality of 1,953 inhabitants within the province of Livorno and is, by territorial extension, the smallest municipality in Tuscany. Marciana Marina is situated on the Island of Elba and is washed by the Ligurian Sea. Yearly it’s residence to the La Tore Isola d’Elba Literary Prize

On the entrance to the port, whose first stone was laid on 10 September 1911, is the traditional Torre degli Appiani, whose present kinds might be attributed, primarily based on stylistic and structural typologies, to the second half of the sixteenth century. The primary nucleus of the city, known as Marina di Marciana or Marciana Marittima, developed within the place known as Il Cotone (a neighborhood time period that means “massive boulder”, from the Latin accusative cotem)[4] close to a pure harbour. Not far-off there was a small marshy space, which was later reclaimed.[5] Subsequently there was additional city improvement which gave rise to the so-called Lengthy Neighborhood. Within the heart, in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, the church of Santa Chiara, relationship again to 1776, must also be famous. Historic buildings of notable curiosity are the Villa Anselmi and the Villa Leonardi (the latter with a triple veranda on Tuscan order columns), dated to the nineteenth century. In the course of the 18th century, attributable to its port and business significance, Marciana Marina was known as Little Marseille.

From the provincial street that connects Marciana Marina to the hamlet of Procchio, the islet known as La Paolina is seen. Named after Paolina Bonaparte following the post-war vacationer growth (initially the city was known as Castiglioncello), it homes ruins of a Roman development relationship again to a interval between the first century BC. and the first century AD. and maybe belonging to an historical business emporium. Examples of recent post-World Battle II structure are Villa Spinelli (Crocetta), Villa Albertini, Villa Del Balzo and Villa Vannini-Parenti (Bagno).