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In the cover: Capoliveri (Isola d'Elba). Photo by Pino Cacucci
Elba, an island of the iron since the times of the Etruscans, and the land of miners until a few decades ago, is now offering the traveler who suddenly Martian and lunar explorer scenarios, in its many abandoned open pit mines. Here, in a plain of Mount excavations ferrous Magnet, on the promontory of Capoliveri - Free Caput, the head of the former slaves as free men in Roman times and then even to rebels Napoleon and then to the slimy Savoy, where there is a plaque commemorating Peter's Square Gori - someone put together large stones to compose the word that for many miners were ideal of freedom and redemption, struggle and hope. Every year, travelers anonymous stones add missing because still be visible from the ... stratospheric dreamers. pine Cacucci.
Pino Cacucci