La Cala

Continuing from the fork toward Ripa Barata, the road becomes a path, and after about 800 meters along the coast, immersed in Mediterranean scrub and brushing past ancient vineyards, you reach the hamlet of La Cala. It is divided by the large ravine that forms the boundary between Marciana Marina and Marciana and has created the beach of La Cala, which is much more accessible than the beach of Ripa Barata and protected by rocks that separate it on one side from Sant’Andrea and on the other from the port of Marciana Marina.

Here too, fortunately, don’t expect crowds: La Cala, kissed by reeds, just a few steps from the perennial pools of the ravine where the very rare Osmunda regalis ferns — the largest in Europe — still grow, ferns that have witnessed the time of the dinosaurs, is a beach where you can spend a peaceful day, both far from and very close to civilization, in a tourist Elba that still tells the story of when it was rural, where the languages of Europe are spoken and blend together.