{"id":2008,"date":"2021-12-13T13:25:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T12:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/blog\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2022-04-07T12:32:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T10:32:31","slug":"how-to-reach-the-island-of-elba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/blog\/en\/how-to-reach-the-island-of-elba\/","title":{"rendered":"How to reach the island of Elba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sea transport Piombino &#8211; Elba<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To reach the island of Elba from the mainland the port of departure is&nbsp;<strong>Piombino<\/strong>&nbsp;(province of Livorno, Tuscany), precisely Piazzale Premuda, which connects the three ports of Elba:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>the\u00a0<strong>port of Cavo<\/strong>, the closest to the mainland, for which the hydrofoil takes only a quarter of an hour and the ferry forty minutes;<\/li><li>the\u00a0<strong>port of Rio Marina<\/strong>, to which only ferries operate, which take three quarters of an hour;<\/li><li>the port of\u00a0<strong>Portoferraio<\/strong>\u00a0(the most important one), also the capital of the island, with the landing place that is reached in forty minutes with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/en\/compagnie\/toremar\">Toremar<\/a>\u00a0<strong>hydrofoils<\/strong>\u00a0and in an hour with the\u00a0<strong>ferries<\/strong>\u00a0of the same company or with those of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/en\/compagnie\/moby\">Moby<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/en\/compagnie\/blunavy\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/compagnie\/blunavy\">Blu Navy<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Race information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below you will find more detailed information and&nbsp;<strong>timetables<\/strong>&nbsp;of all the&nbsp;<strong>routes<\/strong>&nbsp;on the&nbsp;<strong>routes to Elba<\/strong>&nbsp;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/en\/tratte\/piombino-cavo\">Piombino &#8211; Cable<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/en\/tratte\/piombino-riomarina\">Piombino &#8211; Rio Marina<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/en\/tratte\/piombino-portoferraio\">Piombino &#8211; Portoferraio<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Internal navigation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the considerable size of the island there is also an internal route that connects the ports of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/en\/tratte\/cavo-portoferraio\">Cavo and Portoferraio<\/a>&nbsp;in twenty minutes by hydrofoil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alternatives to reach the island<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If from Piombino we went first to the island of Pianosa, another island of the Tuscan Archipelago, during the summer there is the possibility of going to Elba thanks to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/en\/tratte\/pianosa-riomarina\">Pianosa &#8211; Rio Marina connection<\/a>.&nbsp;Furthermore Portoferraio can be reached by sea from Corsica, with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/en\/compagnie\/corsicaferries\">Corsica Ferries &#8211; Sardinia Ferries<\/a>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/en\/porti\/bastia\">Port of Bastia<\/a>.&nbsp;Another alternative is the direct landing at the Elban airport of Marina di Campo.&nbsp;But we&#8217;ll explain&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/blog\/en\/why-it-is-better-to-travel-by-ship-than-by-plane\/\">why it is better to travel by ship instead of by plane<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"traghettiup-aff\" data-afc=\"\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"auto\" data-lang=\"en\" data-whitelabel=\"true\" data-loc=\"isoladelba\" data-blank=\"true\">\n  <!-- Anything inside will go away once widget is loaded. -->\n  <a href=\"\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/\">TraghettiUp.com<\/a>\n<\/section>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n  (function(d, sc, u) {\n    var s = d.createElement(sc), p = d.getElementsByTagName(sc)[0];\n    s.type = 'text\/javascript';\n    s.async = true;\n    s.src = u + '?v=' + (+new Date());\n    p.parentNode.insertBefore(s,p);\n    })(document, 'script', '\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/dist\/scripts\/aff-iframe-outside.js');\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All traditional and alternative ways to get to Elba from the mainland and the islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elba-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4380,"href":"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions\/4380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.traghettiup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}