Gavorrano, important mining center up to the years '80, set in a dominant position (273 ms.), he/she offers a splendid panorama of hills and a sight to the visitor on the lowland of
Follonica. In the near the centers medioevali of Flush (the place is remembered by Plinio as "Aquae calidae), of Ravi, of Giuncarico and the ruins of the Fortress of Castel of Stone.
To few kilometers from the Gulf of Follonica, on the side of the Bald Mountain, Gavorrano rises, important mining center up to the years '80. Sets in a dominant position (273 ms.), he/she offers a splendid panorama of hills and a sight to the visitor on the lowland of Follonica, up to the sea.
The suburb, also so next to the shore (it is reached in few minutes of auto) it is away from the frantic rhythms of the bathing tourism. The principal economic resource of Gavorrano in last century has been the mining activity. In 1898 a great mass of pirite was individualized whose extraction has gone on up to the first years '80; today the mines are closed, but they stay entire some structures what: the Well Rome or the Well Valsecchi. The infrastructures are enjoyable only in least part, but in a great project of recovery will be inserted for the constitution of a "Mining Park."
The centers medioevali of Flush (the place is remembered by Plinio as "Aquae calidae), of Ravi, of Giuncarico and the ruins of the Fortress of Castel of Stone, they will be where the tappes of a run in an uncontaminated nature a meeting it will be possible with wild boars, roes, porcupines, foxes, rapacious or kind elsewhere disappeared as the marten or the wild cat.
