Giannutri Island is the southernmost<\/strong> of the Tuscan Archipelago<\/a><\/strong> and is part of the Municipality of Giglio Island<\/strong>,\u00a0from this about 8 miles south far away. About six miles separate Giannutri from Porto Santo Stefano<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0This 3 km long and over 500 meters wide half-moon shaped island is characterized by four rocky peaks\u00a0(Poggio del Capelrosso, Monte Mario, Monte Adami and Poggio del Cannone) and rugged coastline, with\u00a0numerous bays and coves.<\/p>\n Two tiny stone beaches<\/strong> are on this island: Cala dello Spalmatoio<\/strong> on the northeast side and Cala Maestra<\/strong> on\u00a0the northwest side. The wild nature has remained virtually intact through the centuries.\u00a0For long times was uninhabited<\/strong>, except during the Roman Empire<\/strong> when in the 2nd century BC was built\u00a0near Cala Maestra an harbor and a superlative villa. The entire island is a nature reserve where there aren\u2019t\u00a0hotels and camping is prohibited. Mediterranean scrub and oak forests are chosen by several species of migratory\u00a0nesting birds. Giannutri is also known as the “island of the gulls” for the numerous yellowlegged\u00a0gulls (Larus michahellis) which nest here.\u00a0The crystal clear waters of the Giannutri represents a Marine Reserve to protect sponges, corals and many\u00a0marine plants which cover the sea bottoms and to facilitate fish restocking.<\/p>\n A visit on the island of Giannutri is it possible with a mini cruise departing from the nearby port of Castiglione\u00a0della Pescaia. For further details please contact the tourist information office \u2013 IAT of Castiglione della\u00a0Pescaia- +39 0564 933678. Giannutri is accessible by a daily boat from Porto Santo Stefano and Porto\u00a0Giglio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The crescent shaped island in the tyrrhenian sea Giannutri Island is the southernmost of the Tuscan Archipelago and is part of the Municipality of Giglio Island,\u00a0from this about 8 miles south far away. About six miles separate Giannutri from Porto Santo Stefano.\u00a0This 3 km long and over 500 meters wide half-moon shaped island is characterized by four rocky peaks\u00a0(Poggio del Capelrosso, Monte Mario, Monte Adami and Poggio del Cannone) and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tuscan-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enjoymaremma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enjoymaremma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enjoymaremma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enjoymaremma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enjoymaremma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18081"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.enjoymaremma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139203,"href":"https:\/\/www.enjoymaremma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18081\/revisions\/139203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enjoymaremma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enjoymaremma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enjoymaremma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enjoymaremma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Giannutri beaches<\/h3>\n
How to get to Giannutri<\/h3>\n