Lily island
Giglio Island has a ferry connection with Porto San Stefano (eight times a day in high season - four normal ferries and four more expensive hydrofoils). This is a bit too much trouble for most tourists, but the island is popular with the Romans, especially the rich with yachts. In high season there are only standing places, and only on yachts.
A bus leaves to meet the ferry and delivers the arrivals to two places, Campese i Castello. Few of the permanent residents live or live in one of them, be in houses with red roofs scattered over the hills. The land here rises straight from the sea - there are no sandy coves like on Elba. If you want to stay overnight (and you can easily visit the island in one day), there is a tourist office opposite the ferry pier, where they will do their best, to find some accommodation.
There are thirteen hotels (six out of three, the others with two asterisks), camping (zaraz za Campese) and some rooms for rent in private homes (signs on the windows). Most hotels offer rooms with full board only during high season, and many only operate from June to September. Something special can be found at the Pardinis Hermitage Hotel (• 564/809034 the 412227), built in a secluded part of the coast and only accessible by boat or on foot. The cheapest hotel on the island is Da Giovanni, via di Mezzo Franco 10, Campese (•564/804010), with doubles after 45 000 L, and with board 65 000 L per person; Hotel Meuble Garden of the Palmę (• 0564/804037), also in Campese, costs a little more. Camping, Bay of the Sun (•0564/804036, V-IX) it caters mainly to campers and is located close to Campese.
Castello
CASTELLO is situated in the hills, less than six kilometers on a breakneck road from the port. It is a perfectly preserved old town, surrounded by thick defensive walls and round towers. The bus stops next to a vineyard bar with a patio in the large square; at the first summer house, near the path up behind the bar, there is a sign "rooms for rent" (•0564/806074). In summer there is an open-air disco II Franco.
On the other side of the solar quadrangle is the entrance to the granite castle. Granite has been mined here since Roman times and the Giglio stone was used to build many medieval churches. Daring paths were marked around the castle walls. You can climb stairs and rocks, to admire the panorama of the island with numerous ancient ruins visible in the distance.
Campese
Layed 4 km further along the same road CAMPESE has the only beach on the island, if you don't count the poor dump near the ferry dock. It is a beautiful stretch of sand stretching almost a mile behind the phallic rock, which, for the sake of decency, is not photographed for tourist brochures. The Medici tower rises above the beach. At its feet there is a modern housing complex, covering two restaurants, tennis courts and service facilities for various water sports, including diving equipment rental. You can also hire instructors at the rental shop. The diving club in Giglio has compiled a map of the island's coast with the best places to see the water rocks., fish, plants, and even the wreckage of a Spanish galleon.
Giannutri
GIANNUTRI, the southernmost Tuscan island, it is privately owned and may only be left overnight by invitation. Ordinary mortals can hang around there during the day, but the local policeman asks you to leave your backpacks before going ashore. Given this regime, as well as the monotony and small size of the island (two hours are enough to circumvent it), Only people obsessively fascinated by this geographical form will go here. The curious can go on the tiny M / S Gabbiano II from Santo Stefano (once a day Fr. 10.30,1 V-15IX, the return of Fr. 16.30); off-season courses only on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays.