MARCIANA AND IT'S CULTURE, HISTORY AND NATURE

CHURCH OF SAN LORENZO A MARCIANA
(along the road that connects Marciana Marina to Marciana)

Feature “L’Elba fra storia e leggenda – Itinerari ed altro” by Claudia Danesi, with the kind concession of publication from part of the Administration of Campo nell’Elba.
For the images that we have drawn from photographic arches of the Agency for the tourism of the Tuscany Archipelago, the culture association La Torre, from Giorgio Giusti, from Mario Padani, we thanks the owners for the availability.

The parish church of Marciana, dedicated to Santa Caterina, it currently has und sixteenth-century aspect with some eighteenth-century additions. But in the inner of the building, some structures have been capacities to the light that could belong to a more ancient sacred building, of medieval age, in occasion of recent restorations. However is was not found some document that indicates the existence of it. Sure Marciana it was ancient settlement, and its history bloomed until the fifteenth century, when it saw the construction of a fortress to work of the Principles of Piombino, the Appiani.