The staff offers to the hotel guests a warm hospitality Roberta, Efisio and Tiziana will welcome you at the arrival and will give you all the informations about where to find the most charming beaches or to go sightseeing. If you are keen on minerals they will suggest you the best outfit to go to the Etruscan mines and collect the most beautiful stones

The building which hosts the Hotel has been erected in 1850 by the Marassi family which managed the mines. In 1907 it became a nuns convent. At that time the building was surrounded by a huge Garden full of fruit trees and an inner courtyard; at the ground floor it hosted the theatre, at the first floor the primary school and at the upper floors the embroidery workshop. In 1933 the nuns left and the building became the city hall. In 1970 the Antico family buys the building and transforms it in an Hotel.

All the rooms are well decorated. They all have telefon, color TV, minibar and bathroom with hair-dryer and almost all of them face the sea.

Upon availability you can require a room with terrace or air-conditioning.

Rio Marina can be described as an enchanted village where every single surface or stone shines in the sun. That's because of the haematite which is everywhere. The village finds itself in the middle of the old mines area and it's surrounded by red hills rich of minerals like haematite and pyrite. Rio Marina is one of the most ancient settlements of the island: here has been founded one of the main necropolis of the time of Rinaldone (2000 b.c.) with the remains of the first metal diggers. The village became bigger and wealthier in the centuries thanks to the minerals. Among the most interesting historical and cultural remains there are the Clock Tower, with its octagonal plan; it was erected in the first half of the sixteenth century by Jacopo V d'Aragona and at the end of the nineteenth century was completed with the clock. Worth of a visit the Museum of the Minerals which hosts 700 samples.

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Hotel Rio Sul Mare

Via Palestro 34

57038 Rio Marina (Livorno)

Italy