8Elba

Lying between Corsica and the mainland, Elba is famously where Napoleon Bonaparte spent his first exile. It’s also the third largest of Italy’s islands after Sardinia and Sicily.

Elba, though, is not your typical Tuscany getaway. It has snorkelling, beautiful beaches, and thermal baths beckoning you away from the region’s ubiquitous rolling hills and cypress tree alleys to this small offshore idyll.

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