Forte dei Marmi

Forte dei Marmi is a town with 7619 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the province of Lucca on the Ligurian Sea. Forte dei Marmi is a fashionable resort on the Versilia, which is mostly visited in summer. Berths on the beach here cost up to several hundred euros a day.

History

The landmark of the town is Il Fortino, a fort was built in 1788, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopold I. The port was formerly used for shipment of marble, which was broken in the Apuan Alps. The discovery of the marble layers goes back to the sculptor Michelangelo, who was able to tap on behalf of the Grand Duke beside the nearby Carrara here Marmorflöze.

Since the 1920s, here the FIAT -owning Agnelli family lived in the summer. Today, the property is a 5 -star hotel with underground corridor, the beach. Thomas Mann held in 1926 on a trip to Forte dei Marmi. He used the place as a template for " Torre di Venere " in his political novella Mario and the Magician. Five years before the famous writer Aldous Huxley was for some time in Forte dei Marmi down.

The tenor Andrea Bocelli also lives here. Forte dei Marmi is the birthplace of Queen Paola of Belgium. Edmund Stoiber is an honorary citizen of the town.

Pictures

Beach with changing rooms

Sculptures in the city center

Film

• Holiday Tuscany - The seaside resort of Forte dei Marmi. Documentary, Germany, 2012, 43:10 min, written and directed by Cristina Ricci and Stefan margins, production: television office, SWR, arte, number: country - People - adventure, first broadcast February 18, 2013 at SWR, NDR Summary.