Representative of Cittaslow
Elisa Cecchini, Assessore al Turismo, Lavori Pubblici e Ambiente
Tel. 0565 707210
e.cecchini@comune.sanvincenzo.li.it
Giancarlo Querci, Responsabile U.O. Sviluppo Economico e Certificazione Ambientale
Tel. 0565 707231
g.querci@comune.sanvincenzo.li.it
San Vincenzo is a seaside city facing the Tyrrhenian sea, the most well-equipped tourist centre of the Costa degli Etruschi.
How to get there
San Vincenzo is well served in terms of transport: the railway station is a few minutes’ walk from the sea, the exit of the SUPERSTRADA STATALE N°1 AURELIA is a few kilometres from the motorway A1 ROSIGNANO-GENOVA, and a marina, which is now being enlarged, allows fast docking close to the city centre. The international airport of Pisa is 70 km from the city.
The blue flag
The BLUE FLAG, an important acknowledgment and a European symbol of clean beaches and seas, has been waving on more than 11 km of San Vincenzo’s coast since 2006. It is part of a campaign by FEE (European Foundation for the Environmental Education), aiming to encourage and enhance the governments’ commitment to improving environments that have strong links to the sea. In 2004 SAN VINCENZO increased the number of tests on sea water, intensified beach clean-up campaigns, set up a dog beach, supported a project for security in the sea involving bathing resorts and hotel managers.
San Vincenzo is Registred Iso 14001 and Emas.
Among its many amenities, San Vincenzo offers excellent tourist facilities and a well-equipped mooring harbour which is currently being enlarged; its its overall amenities constitute the centre of the accommodation group of VAL DI CORNIA and COSTA DEGLI ETRUSCHI. The coastal shoreline is composed of light and thin sand and extends for 12 km fringed with the thick Mediterranean brush vegetation which stretches out to the beach.
The town is easily accessible by car, through the great coast road N.1 Aurelia, or by train, with the railway line TURIN-ROME, and it is 70 km from the international airport of Pisa “GALILEO GALILEI”.
SAN VINCENZO is well supplied with all public facilities.
It is close to the POPULONIA promontory and it stands at the centre of an important Etruscan archaeological area. Moreover, it is also near to picturesque ancient villages and historic medieval hill towns such as SUVERETO, CAMPIGLIA MARITTIMA, BOLGHERI, CASTAGNETO CARDUCCI, VOLTERRA, SAN GIMIGNANO. Three of the most important cities that are renowned for their art treasures, PISA, FLORENCE and SIENA are respectively 70, 140 and 115 km from the town.
Another place of great tourist importance and within easy reach of the town is THE ISLAND OF ELBA (boarding at Piombino, 20 km from SAN VINCENZO).
San Vincenzo is also well-equipped in terms of sport, with a series of sporting centres to satisfy any demand: football, five a side, basketball, tennis, volley, rugby, archery and most of all cycling, including professional cycling, with the “E. SOLVAY” cycle-track. And for those who enjoy the health-giving properties of spa waters, the nearby health resort of TERME DI CALDANA offers healing baths with its healthful revitalizing waters.
The climate is of the Mediterranean type: temperatures range from mild during the winter to warm during the summer. The summer heat is mitigated by sea breezes and the in winter the thermometer hardly ever drops below 5 degrees; in autumn and spring the temperature range rarely varies more.
