Follonica has a church with a cast-iron pronaos, rose window and furnishings: San Leopoldo, one of a kind in Italy, cast in the 1830s by the grand-ducal foundries that smelted Elba's iron ore here with charcoal from the Maremma woods. MAGMA, the cast-iron arts museum inside the former foundry, tells that story of Tuscany's own industrial revolution.
When the furnaces went cold, the town of 21,479 reinvented itself on the beach: its namesake gulf lines up kilometres of sand backed by pinewoods, with Elba on the horizon. The Lorraine dynasty's factory town is now one of the Maremma's summer capitals.
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Next up: Saint Leopold, patron also remembered by the «Follos 1838» re-enactment, Sunday 15 November
Nearest airport: Pisa Galilei, 90 km away
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📅 Every year, on 15 November
Follonica celebrates Saint Leopold on 15 November, in the church dedicated to him; every second Sunday of May the town re-enacts with «Follos 1838» the arrival of Grand Duke Leopold II of Lorraine, while the local Carnevale Maremmano has its roots in 1949.
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Outside Follonica, but an easy day trip away.
