Visiting Villa San Martino gives you goose bumps, makes you jump in the past, takes you somewhere you would have never imagine. It’s hard to explain how it feels to walk through rooms that have been a luxury “prison” of such a powerful man, see all those paintings from Revelli that have been commissioned by Bonaparte, always trying to express himself at the highest levelsand spreading culture where ever he would go.
Even the “teatro dei vigilanti” in Portoferraio is sort of a time machine; once a church, Napoleon turned it into a theater to give an attitude to Elba, risking to be far away from the main centers of culture.
To make a long story short, Elba blinks an eye to people staying on the main land of Tuscany (it’s just an hour away by ferry) and with its infinite beauties is waiting for all of you ready to warm your stay.
