Argentario
Argentario The Beaches
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Argentario
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The Feniglia dune, for its entire length and breadth, 6 km by 1 km, is entirely covered by pine-woods. The coast-line of Mount Argentario is extremely irregular, notched by high cliffs and bays that follow one another in quick succession; the inlets in the cliffs occasionally afford tiny beaches formed from the alluvial deposits of the torrents that flow out into the sea. The Argentario is rich in grottoes; some of them along the coast formed by the erosive action of the sea but others, inland, are due to the Karst phenomenon which, though not, on the whole, widespread here, is of considerable naturalistic and scientific interest. In some of these cavities primordial species of fauna have settled since ancient times; in others, evidence of human
habitation in the paleolithic and neolithic ages has been found; in yet others, the dripping waters have produced handsome stalactites and stalagmites. Besides the abundance of fish in the waters off the Argentario, red coral can still be found and the sea does yield up the occasional amphora encrusted with molluscs. All of which makes the depths here a favourite haunt of enthusiasts of underwater fishing and photography. But, as a whole, the Argentario is also an ideal place for those who are attracted by beauty of landscape, by a mild climate and by the monuments of past ages, charged with cultural and historical associations. While traditional activities linked to the primary sector still make their contribution, the backbone of the territory's economy today is tourism: the Argentario is, in fact, the showpiece of the Maremma and its bathing-resorts attract the elite from both home and abroad. The origin of the name is uncertain; some claim that it derives from the gleam of the Argentario rocks, others trace it back to Etruscan times, to a silver-mine on the Argentario hills, but it seems most likely that the name stems from the professional activity of the Domizi Enobarbo family, bankers (argentarii), who were the original owners of the land, back in the I century A.D.
At Argentario, there is tourist accommodation available in hotels, farm holiday, farmhouse, residence self-catering accommodation, b&b, rooms for rent, holiday homes, camp sites and tourist villages.
