Capraia Isola

Capraia is immersed in a sea crystalline who infringes on its steep cliffs and coves. The island is dominated by various forms of life, in order to make this unique and fascinating landscape, the diversified nature as a whole, during the spring months is to fill up with white daisies. The sea surrounding the island is rich in various marine species, and in addition to these natural agents also make some interesting archaeological finds visiting the island. Several testimonies of the ancient civilization that lived in these places, some of these examples are the many scattered towers on the peaks of guarding a "natural treasure" of inestimable value. The territory is easily accessible through 2h 30 'shipping, with ferries departing daily from the port of Livorno. The local population came to a colony of about a little over four hundred people. The capacity of the port is 220 boats. In the past it was christened with the name of Aegylon, by the Greeks and Capraria by Romany. And 'likely that the name is given by the presence of wild goats on the island, while the other assumptions and that its name derives from a karpa Mediterranean theme with the meaning of "rock". In medieval times it was the basis of pirates Saracens, and domination of Pisani, undergoing the transition in the Republic of Genoa after the battle of Meloria. With the annexation of Genoa to the Kingdom of Sardinia and in the subsequent unification of the Kingdom of Italy, remained the government Genoese until 15 November 1925, when the Royal Decree No 2111, went to the province of Livorno.