Bagno

Located beyond the Remontò beach, at the end of the descent, a path leads to Bagno beach—a small stretch of coastline marked by grey and black pebbles and the remains of the old tuna fishery, active until the 1950s. This fishery, a smaller twin of the one at Enfola—on the opposite side of the gulf and now home to the Tuscan Archipelago National Park—bears witness to a past deeply rooted in fishing and maritime life.

Bagno is a cherished place for local sailors, who have always frequented it and, in recent years, defended it resolutely against attempts at privatization. Here, the island’s two souls—rural and maritime—come together, inseparable like two sides of the same coin. Once, when the sea still teemed with large schools of tuna and the brutal festival of the fishery stained the waters red, it was even possible to spot the “tacca di fondo,” the local name for the great white shark.