Curated category
Elba
- PortoferraioCosimo I de' Medici founded the town in 1548 under the name Cosmopoli. He ordered three forts built to protect the new settlement on Elba.
- ElbaThe island of Elba rose from the ancient Tethyan seafloor through violent tectonic shifts. Slices of rock once submerged in that prehistoric ocean now form…
- Principality of ElbaThe Treaty of Fontainebleau signed on the 11th of April 1814 transformed the Mediterranean island of Elba into a personal possession for Napoleon Bonaparte.