Piombino Attractions
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The port and industrial town of Piombino lies roughly half-way down the coast of Tuscany, to the northeast of the island of Elba. To the north of the town rises Monte Massoncello (286m/938ft).
History
The town was a Roman foundation, under the name of Portus Falesiae. In the sixth century A.D. the Lombards, thrusting into Italy during the Great Migrations, destroyed Populonia, long a neighbor and rival, and thus increased the importance of Piombino, which in the 12th and 13th centuries became a major Pisan stronghold. Thereafter it frequently changed hands, until the Congress of Vienna in 1814 assigned it to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
History
The town was a Roman foundation, under the name of Portus Falesiae. In the sixth century A.D. the Lombards, thrusting into Italy during the Great Migrations, destroyed Populonia, long a neighbor and rival, and thus increased the importance of Piombino, which in the 12th and 13th centuries became a major Pisan stronghold. Thereafter it frequently changed hands, until the Congress of Vienna in 1814 assigned it to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
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