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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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