A land rich in art and history, where musicians such as Mascagni e painters like Modigliani were born, and where, like Fattori, who was also born in Livorno, the School of Macchiaioli was established. Permanent collections and international pictorial relief exhibitions recall and bring to life this important heritage.

Cultural institutions established in this region like the CEL (Summer Committee of Livorno) Theater, the Armunia and the P. Mascagni Music Institute play important roles as cultural promoters. History comes alive in the medieval villages like Bolgheri, Populonia, Castagneto Carducci, Bibbona, Suvereto, Campiglia Marritma – true jewels rising from the greenery of the hills and forests, a few steps from the sea.

Livorno, planned by the Medici in the 1500’s as the “ideal city,” maintains striking evidence of its past, such as the historical district of Venezia, the Fortezze, and the navigable canals marking the city’s downtown limits. A city of strong cosmopolitan traditions, one can visit various religious houses of worship. The Etruscan Coast includes the entire continental territory of the Livorno Province, comprised from south to north of the municipalities of Piombino, San Vincenzo, Castagneto Carducci, Bibbona, Cecina, Rosignano Marittimo and Livorno, as well as the inland towns of Collesalvetti, Sassetta, Suvereto and Campiglia Marittima.

It is named for the numerous Etruscan necropolises located principally betweeen the Boratti Gulf and Populonia, which was originally the only Etruscan city set along the coastal strip. The name was later extended to the entire coast of the Livorno province, corresponding mostly to the Maremma of Livorno (the ancient Maremma of Pisa).

The coast appears mainly low and sandy in the area between Rosignano Solvay in the north and the Baratti Gulf in the south, with generally golden colored beaches except for the coastal section between Rosignano Solvay and Vada where the charming White Beaches extend. Further to the north, the pleasant ridges of Castiglioncello and Quercianella mark the coast near Livorno behind which extend the so-called Livorno Hills. Instead, to the south the Piombino ridge rises on whose summit stands Populonia, which divides the Baratti Gulf from Piombino itself, at the same time marking the boundary between the Ligurian Sea and Tyrrhenian Sea.