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Porto Azzurro is a municipality in Italy located on the island of Elba. It is a coastal town that serves as a residential and tourist destination in this Mediterranean region.
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- Instance of
- comune of Italy
- Official name
- Porto Azzurro
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Province of Livorno
- Population
- 3628
- Area
- 13.33
- Elevation
- 2
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Rio
- Official website
- www.comune.portoazzurro.li.it
- Image
- Porto azzurro da monte castello.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0565
- Licence plate code
- LI
- Patron saint
- St. James the Elder
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- Commons category
- Porto Azzurro
- postal code
- 57036
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- Porto Azzurro
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Encyclopedic overview
Porto Azzurro is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Livorno in the Italian region Tuscany; it is on the island of Elba, located about 130 kilometres (81 miles) southwest of Florence and about 90 kilometres (56 mi) south of Livorno. It was formerly called Porto Longone, and in 1557 Iacopo VI Appiani, Prince of Piombino, granted Spain the right to build a fortress there, so it was transferred to the State of the Presidi that it was born as a direct possession of the crown of Spain. The state had only governors sent by the central Spanish government first and then Austrian. In 1801, Napoleon established the Kingdom of Etruria. Eventually it was transferred to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Porto Azzurro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.