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Vada
Described from authors like Cicerone and Plinio, became famous like port of Volterra and, later on, its lagoon it was an optimal shelter also for the pirati ones saraceni.
The “sand banks are notes of Go” that they caused the shipwreck of many ships roman, that they left here some of the more important testimonies of the exchanges trades them of the greco-roman world. Many ancient stuff like amphoras, are gone of terracotta and marbles work can be still found to you on the low ones found them.
The place is famous also for the disembarkation of Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1867, after its imprisonment to Caprera. The more ancient monument of the city is the Tower of Vada, built up from the pisani around to 1400, that it was used like beacon and today is the expo center of the education laboratory.
Long free beach (5 Km) offers many divertimenti that they space from the underwater peach to the surf, in order to continue with the schools of sail, the skating, the fields from tennis and the beach volley. The holiday zone extends from the Oadstead of the Saraceno, as it came called the Coast of the Etruschi, to the pinis wood of Pietrabianca and from the residential zone Molino to Fire to Mezzanta.
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