| TOWER OF SAN GIOVANNI
At the road that leads from Marina di Campo to the Monte Perone
Tower of sight realized from the Republic of Pisa for the defense
of its elbanian garrison, going back to the sec. XI.
From there was controlled the navigation in the tightness of Piombino
and the sea in front of it. It was part of a system of awake towers
in range of vision from each other was and the military information
passing optically from one to one.
Since centuries awakes over the gulf of Campo, and although
it was damaged by bomb attacks , which maintenance was neglected and
it the climatic influences defies, it lost nothing of its majesty.
A movement of the enormous granite massif on which it was built, has
its static situation still worsened.
In 1965 where done restoration works from the monument protection
of Pisa on the breaks which executed by the movement of the
massif.
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CHURCH
OF SAN GIOVANNI IN CAMPO
At the road that leads from Marina di Campo to the Monte Perone
The Church of San Giovanni in Campo, situated to average coast of
the Monte Perone in overhanging position to the villages of San Piero
and San Ilario, constitutes the immensest Romanesque religious building
of this epoch that remains on the island of Elba. The building
leads back into the second half of the XII. century and shows
the same architectural characteristics of other elbanian churches;
only one rectangular church ship with halfcircle termination.The walls
inside the building are disguised with granite (the Granite quarry
is close of the church and today is still in operation). Interesting
also the front, which presents at its top side a bell tower is still
almost quite received. |
