Walking hand in hand in sweet company, in a natural environment, hearing int he background the breaking of the waves of the sea on the sand and perhaps even the notes of a violin accompanying you... Yes, the sweetest notes of a violin accompanying you along the beach, a red sunset flaming up the horizon and the clear water lapping at your feet while you walk along the seashore. An image such as this can only belong to a cult romantics and dreamers film,...but no!, a place like this really exists and you must never have walked along the beach in Cala Violina.
Inside the Follonica Gulf, in the Bandite di Scarlino reserve, which is divided by a small promontory from Punta Ala, among a multitude of small caves, you will find Cala Violina. The beach’s name derives from its very rare characteristic (it appears there is only one another beach with such a peculiarity) by which, steeping on the sand, the latter will echo back the harmonious notes of a violin.
In this immagnificent landscape the beach slowly degrades to the sea with a sandy bottom, the water, clear and blue is full of fish and, not distant from the shore, banks of Ocean Posidonias flow with the movement of the sea. Behind the sand beach, there is the thick Mediterranean bush that arrives down to a few meters from the water.
The beach’s "sound" effect can be heard only in the periods of less flow to the “cal”, because in the summer when hordes of tourists and bathers “invade” the small sandy stripe, I assure you that the effect of the romantic notes is lost in the air without your perceiving them.
Cala Violina attracts in every period of the year, particularly in the summer, an exorbitant number of tourists, who really overrun the beach, and you are baffled by the number of boats, small and large, that are anchored beyond the floaters delimitating the beach.
Scarlino Municipality (In Italian)
