Tuscan Isles Charter Itinerary

Tuscan Isles Itinerary

Tuscan Isles Yacht Charter
The Tuscan archipelago is seven islands strung between the mainland and Corsica, and it is startling how few charters bother with them. Elba is the largest and best known. Montecristo has been a nature reserve since 1971 and admits a handful of visitors a year.





The route runs north to south, taking in the Ligurian coast at Cinque Terre before turning down through the islands to Rome. It pairs the archaeology and the appetite of Italy with anchorages that are, for this coast, remarkably quiet.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the Tuscan isles; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Viareggio

Begin at Viareggio, a resort town of Art Nouveau bathhouses and a carnival tradition that runs to enormous satirical floats. Puccini lived and wrote nearby, and the opera festival still runs each summer beside the lake. Walk the promenade in the evening, eat well, and take the first night at anchor off the Tuscan coast.
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Day 2

Lucca & La Spezia

Inland to Lucca, which kept its Renaissance walls when every other Tuscan city pulled theirs down, and now uses the ramparts as a park. Narrow streets, a Roman amphitheatre become a piazza, and no cars. Return to the coast and cruise north to La Spezia, berthing for the night with the Ligurian hills behind.
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Day 3

Cinque Terre & Portovenere

Five villages, no road along the coast between them, terraced vineyards holding the cliffs together ’ Cinque Terre is best approached the way it was always approached, from the water. Hike a section between villages, eat anchovies from Monterosso, then anchor at Portovenere, where the church stands out on the point taking spray in a blow.
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Day 4

Elba

Elba is where Napoleon spent ten months in exile, ran the island with characteristic energy, and then left. His summer villa at San Martino is unexpectedly modest. The rest of the island is beaches, coves and vineyards on iron-red soil. Snorkel the clear water on the eastern shore, then a glass of Aleatico above the sea.
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Day 5

Giglio & Montecristo

Giglio has a Medici watchtower, a harbour of painted houses and a granite spine. West of it lies Montecristo ’ uninhabited, strictly protected, and the island Dumas gave to his count. Access is limited and must be arranged well in advance; failing that, circle it slowly. Few places in the Mediterranean feel this untouched.
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Day 6

Porto Ercole & Giannutri

Porto Ercole sits under two Spanish fortresses on the Argentario peninsula ’ Caravaggio died here, in some obscurity, in 1610. Watersports in the bay, or the drive inland to Siena for the afternoon. Anchor overnight off Giannutri, the southernmost island of the archipelago, its Roman villa half in the sea.
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Day 7

Rome

Disembark at Civitavecchia and go into Rome, which needs no preparation and rewards none. Whatever you have seen before, see something else: the Forum at opening, a church with a Caravaggio and no queue, an unlabelled trattoria in Testaccio. Farewell lunch, and a week that ended in the only city that could follow it.
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